Later that evening, the Secretary-General met the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai.
Karzai will remain the president of Afghanistan, running a corrupt and incompetent government.
But Burhanuddin Rabbani, the Alliance's leader and self-styled president of Afghanistan, was sidelined, apparently under pressure from the American and German governments, among others.
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Prime Minister STEPHEN HARPER (Canada): The president of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai.
There are some extreme examples of putting yourself out there, such as Fawzia Koofi who is running for President of Afghanistan despite threats from the Taliban.
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Karzai is, after all, a Pashtun and given the fact that Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group, the next president of Afghanistan almost certainly will be a Pashtun.
"There is a lack of assurance that any president of Afghanistan will have any commitment to women's issues and in particular towards this decree, " Ms Koofi told the BBC before the debate.
After a press conference with Foreign Minister Westerwelle, the Secretary-General met with the President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, and thanked him for convening members of the international community to the Conference on Afghanistan.
And earlier today I was pleased to have wide ranging bilateral discussions with both President Karzai of Afghanistan and President Zardari of Pakistan.
Earlier today, the President held a video conference with President Karzai of Afghanistan, as part of their regular consultations.
Earlier today, the President held a video conference with President Karzai of Afghanistan, as a part of their regular consultations and following on their phone call last week.
The President spoke with President Karzai of Afghanistan, Prime Minister, Monti of Italy, King Abdullah II of Jordan, Emir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani of Qatar, President Putin of Russia, and President Rajoy of Spain.
Musa Marufi, President of the Afghanistan's newly created radio and television regulating authority, argued that, even if a PSB has of course to come to terms with laws, religion and the society in which it is operating, it is the duty of a PSB to empower individuals to act freely in their society by securing access to fair and accurate information.
Vice President -- former Vice President Cheney was quite critical of the President over the timeline of the decision on going forward in Afghanistan, saying that the President seems afraid to make a decision, that this delay hurts our allies and emboldens our adversaries.
The principals involved in the president's review of Afghanistan strategy were given the same document on Monday, Morrell said.
Secretary -- former Secretary Kissinger last week said that along with following the recommendations of his ambassador and the generals in Afghanistan, President Obama should support an international conference and treaty that guarantees neutrality of Afghanistan in the long term, and he likened it to the Treaty of London that guaranteed Belgium neutrality.
And I also thanked President Obama for adding considerable resources to the success in Afghanistan on becoming the President of the United States, for which, Mr. President, I convey the gratitude of the Afghan people.
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This is a plea to the president not to pull out of Afghanistan too fast.
"I believe there is a dire need for a change of course in Afghanistan, irrespective of who becomes the president, " said Rauf Roashan of the Institute for Afghan Studies, a scholarly center founded by Afghans living abroad.
When he declared on Tuesday, "These additional American and international troops will allow us to accelerate handing over responsibility to Afghan forces, and allow us to begin the transfer of our forces out of Afghanistan in July of 2011, " the president has undercut the McChrystal plan and made success difficult to achieve.
Mr Romney even backed the president's policy of withdrawing from Afghanistan by 2014 - something the Republican has previously disagreed with.
Mr. President, Afghanistan is fully aware of the task ahead and of what Afghanistan needs to do to reach the objectives that we all have of a stable, peaceful and self-reliant Afghanistan.
Of note that General McChrystal told the group, including obviously the President, that we were on schedule on our force flow in getting additional forces approved by the President into Afghanistan by the end of the summer.
Look, there were erroneous reports the day of the speech that somehow the President was going to say everybody involved would be out of Afghanistan in three years.
It was a sign of the huge problems Afghanistan still faces, well President Hamid Karzai was in London during the middle of this week putting the case, the urgent case for more international aid and support and I caught up with him at his hotel and I asked him first if he feared the world was walking away from his country.
The president said the two months of battle in Afghanistan have shown the effectiveness of superior technology.
Much of Afghanistan is lawless and President Hamid Karzai's administration has little control outside the capital, Kabul.
Terry Lee, who said he worked with Hasan, told Fox News that Hasan had hoped President Barack Obama would pull troops out of Afghanistan and Iraq.
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That the president has doubled the number of troops in Afghanistan, ordered more drone strikes in Pakistan than his predecessor did in eight years, and launched another war in Libya without so much as getting a rubber stamp from Congress is of no concern to the good party-line liberal.
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