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  • Jan 30th, 2010
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has cancelled a planned stopover in Davos on his return journey home from the London conference on Afghanistan, a WEF spokeswoman said Friday. Karzai had been announced as among the 30 national leaders attending the annual at the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting of political and business chiefs in the Swiss ski resort, which started Wednesday and ends Sunday.

But the Afghan leader was expected to return directly to Kabul after Thursday's conference in London, at which world powers backed Karzai's plan to woo moderate Taliban fighters who disarm, said the WEF spokeswoman. No reason was given for his cancellation. An official in Karzai's delegation in London also said Karzai planned to return directly to Afghanistan. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband and his German, French and Polish counterparts - Guido Westerwelle, Bernard Kouchner and Radoslaw Sikorski - were due to attend a session on Afghanistan in Davos later Friday.

Copyright Agence France-Presse, 2010


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