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Rice and Miliband make unannounced visit to Afghanistan
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband arrived in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit on Thursday, carrying a joint message of support and prodding to Afghan officials as the US continued a drive to recruit more NATO troops.
- Agencies
- Published: 10:26 February 7, 2008
Kabul: US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and British Foreign Secretary David Miliband arrived in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit on Thursday, carrying a joint message of support and prodding to Afghan officials as the US continued a drive to recruit more NATO troops.
Rice and Miliband flew to the Afghan capital from London together.
They were seeing Afghan President Hamid Karzai and other officials amid a welter of outside assessments that progress in the six-year war is stalling.
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