For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
August 13, 2002
Statement by the Deputy Press Secretary
Zalmay Khalilzad, the President's Special Envoy for Afghanistan and
Special Assistant to the President for Southwest Asia, the Near East
and North Africa, arrived in Afghanistan on August 10 and will stay
through August 15. Dr. Khalilzad is consulting with President Karzai
and senior Afghan, UN, and other officials on the situation in
Afghanistan and our continuing efforts to help Afghanistan as it moves
forward toward security and economic reconstruction.
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