Kerry returns to Kabul to continue talks with Karzai

[maddezmom]

Source: The Globe

Massachusetts Senator John Kerry has quietly returned to Kabul to continue talks with Afghan president Hamid Karzai, according to his spokesman, Frederick Jones. Kerry, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, left Kabul on Wednesday to tour flood-affected areas of Pakistan, but made a second, unexpected trip back to Afghanistan, apparently to resume meetings with the Afghan president about anticorruption efforts, and about Karzai's decree that American contractors should leave the country within four months.

“As part of his ongoing efforts to assess conditions on the ground, Senator Kerry has returned to Afghanistan to complete his meetings with Karzai and US officials, and will visit with soldiers," Jones said.

Kerry was due to leave the region tonight, but opted to postpone for reasons his aides did not disclose.



Read more: http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2010/08/kerry_returns_t.html

[karynnj]

1. It will be very interesting to hear what Senator Kerry has to say when he returns from this trip

His excellent hearings this year and last fall on Afghanistan have raised many questions. It is interesting that he, rather than Holbrooke was over in Pakistan and Afghanistan. (I would have expected both to be there - Holbrooke representing the administration and Kerry representing Senate oversight.