Meaning of 国际联盟 in this sentence?

[Tobias]

Hello!

I am not quite clear about the Meaning of 国际联盟 in the following sentence:

我们支持并将继续支持国际联盟在阿富汗进行反恐行动的努力。

As it refers to the War on Terror in Afghanistan, I think it may be translated as ISAF.

The only thing i found is the "League of Nations" with seems to be rather inappropriate.

Or should it just be read as "international alliance"?

Thanks alot for any help in advance!

[muyongshi]

My thought is that it may be a typo and should be 联合国.

[Tobias]

It is from the only official document i could find about the 上海合作组织成员国元首宣言 of 2005, at http://www.sectsco.org/CN/show.asp?id=169

close to the middle-end section of §3 so i would be surprise if it is a typing error.

Maybe the whole text under the above mentioned link does help to find any good translation?

thanks!

[roddy]

International coalition, in the context of Afghanistan, although I suspect in English it's usually just 'coalition'. NATO, plus the ISAF, plus the Afghan government forces.

[echo_zkl]

Seems League of Nations is the official English name of 国际联盟, check out the following website:

http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%9B%BD%E9%99%85%E8%81%94%E7%9B%9F

[muyongshi]

I think Roddy's got it nailed. Just referring to coalition.

[Tobias]

ok, thanks for the answers!

I will stick to "international coalition" in my translation. (adding a little footnote)

P.S.: It has been over a year since my last visit to this forum and i am still amazed at the speed of answering and helping out here ;)