Mon, Oct 19, 2009 - Page 7 News List

Delay extra troops to Afghanistan: Kerry

GOOD GOVERNANCEThe head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee said the US needed to be sure what kind of government there would be in Kabul first

AFP , WASHINGTON

Speaking to CBS television, Kerry said he did not see how Obama “can make a decision about the committing of our additional forces, or even the further fulfillment of our mission that’s here today, without an adequate government in place or knowledge about what that government’s going to be.”

He said it was time for Karzai to “step up” and explain how they could be a viable partner.

Excerpts of the interviews were provided by the networks and were to be aired in full yesterday on CNN’s State of the Union and CBS’s Face the Nation.

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