Washington, November 17: Richard Holbrooke, the Special US Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, has held extensive consultation with Russian officials in Moscow on Af-Pak region, a State Department official said today.
Besides meeting with his Russian counterpart in Moscow, Holbrooke also had meetings with a number of other officials from the ministry of foreign affairs, finance and defence.
“This is part of a number of consultations that Ambassador Holbrooke has had with countries that are helping us in Afghanistan, have a number of cooperative programmes with Afghanistan and Pakistan,” State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.
“He has been wanting to go there, I know, for several months, so this is something that’s been planned for some time, and it’s part of his ongoing consultations with a number of countries that are involved in the effort in Afghanistan,” Kelly said.
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