Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Kabul (BNA) President Hamid Karzai, leading a high-level delegation, left before noon on Tuesday on a three-day official visit to Ankara, the capital of Turkey to attend the 7th trilateral summit between Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkey, the presidential office said in a statement.
On the sideline of the trilateral summit, president Karzai is scheduled to hold separate meetings with Turkish President Abdullah Gul and prime minister Rajab Tayip Erdoghan to discuss issues of mutual interest including ways to broaden bilateral relations in different areas between the two countries, the statement said.
The president will separately meet with Asif Ali Zardai President of Pakistan to exchange views on bilateral cooperation between Afghanistan and Pakistan, recent development in the peace process and to discuss, based on evidence and information, the assassination attempt against the Director of National Security Asadullah Khalid, the statement added.
President Karzai is accompanied on this trip by foreign minister Dr. Zalami Rassoulk, chairman of high peace council Salahuddin Rabbani, minister of interior Ghulam Mujtaba Patang, National Security Advisor Dr. Rangin Dadfar Spanta, Minister of Transport & civil aviation Daoud Ali Najafi, Minister of Public Affairs Najibullah Ozhan, Chief of army Staff General Sher Muhammad Karimi, presidential advisor in international relations Yahya Marufi, Acting director of National security Hasamuddin Marzi, political deputy minister of foreign affairs Jawed Ladin, Deputy chief of staff to the president Homaira Lodin Etemadi and presidential spokesman Aimal Faizi.
