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US Secretary of State Clinton meets Afghan president
Oct 20, 2011, 9:10 GMT
Kabul - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai Thursday morning, an embassy spokesman said.
Clinton arrived to Afghanistan late Wednesday on an unannounced short visit to meet with Karzai and civil society leaders.
Karzai and Clinton will address a joint press conference, said Gavin Sundwall, the spokesman for the US Embassy in Kabul.
Clinton is expected to stress the US commitment to the Afghan peace process. Lately, Clinton has been pushing for a political solution to the decade-old insurgency in Afghanistan.
Her visit came amid increasing coordinated attacks in the capital in recent months, including the assassination of a former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani, who headed a council that was seeking peace talks with the Taliban, in a suicide attack on his house last month.
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