Afghan President Hamid Karzai left for Turkey and Germany on Sunday, ahead of an international conference in London on finding ways to help his country, his office said. The US-backed leader will meet Turkish politicians and his Pakistani counterpart Asif Ali Zardari during a tripartite meeting between Ankara, Islamabad and Kabul, his office said in a statement. "The President will meet Asif Ali Zardari, the Pakistani President, over effective ways of fighting terrorism," the statement said.
On Tuesday Karzai will visit Germany, where he is scheduled to hold talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday before heading to London for the international conference on Afghanistan, the statement said. Karzai's foreign, interior, finance and education ministers as well as his spy chief were accompanying him on the trips, it added.
Britain is to host the international conference on Afghanistan on Thursday in a bid to thrash out conditions for achieving the international community's goals in the country. At the London gathering Afghanistan will present its development programme, which includes a newly initiated peace scheme with the Taliban insurgents.
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