[Quqnoos] In an "extremely important trip" to US next month, President Karzai will meet his American counterpart Barack Obama
President Obama's special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, said the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will attend an international conference to be held in Kabul in July.
Karzai accepted Obama's invitation to Washington, which was extended to him during the US President's last month visit to the Afghan capital, Special US Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke said.
| Ah, but will he be allowed to join President Obama for dinner, or will he be banished to a meeting room to come up with answers to Obama's demands? |
This would be Karzai's first trip, which is scheduled from May 10 to 14, to the United States in his second term and also under the Obama Administration.
Observing that the visit is going to be very intense, whole-of-government effort, Holbrooke yesterday said the Obama administration is taking this trip very seriously. "Our number-one project right now is planning for that trip."
| What, the entire administration? |
Kabul Conference, as a follow up to the London conference held early this year, will be held on July 20, he said.
"That will be a conference hosted by the government of Afghanistan. It will involve a domestic portion and an international portion, and the international portion Secretary Clinton plans to attend, and other internationals will be coming as well," he said.
"That is an important conference, obviously. "Details will be extrapolated from the previous two. But it will be an affirmation of international support for the government, and it is the follow-on to the London conference," Holbrooke said. |