New York, September 29: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has told her Afghan counterpart that President Hamid Karzai’s government must earn its people’s trust by tackling charges of election fraud, a US official said.
Clinton told Afghan Foreign Minister Rangeen Dadfar Spanta during a meeting yesterday in New York that he is “a strong voice for the need for the rule of law and good governance,” the State Department official told reporters.
“She said that it was really important that the government earn the trust of the Afghan people, letting the process play out on elections that were held on August 20,” the official said on the condition of anonymity.
“The foreign minister agreed about the need to earn the trust of the Afghan people,” the US official said.
–PTI