Afghans 'ready' to sign US security pact: Karzai

July 22, 2013 19:34

The Afghan president told the top US military commander today that he was ready in principle to let American troops stay in Afghanistan beyond 2014, a month after suspending security talks.

General Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, is the most senior American to meet Hamid Karzai since he suspended negotiations for a long-term security pact in protest at how the Taliban opened a liaison office in Qatar. Karzai's office said both sides discussed the Afghan-US security pact.

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