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Article: IRAN: FOREIGN MINISTER ABDULLAH SPEAKS AT RFE/RL.(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
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- September 24, 2002
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Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah addressed a gathering at RFE/RL's Washington office on 18 September and discussed a range of topics, from domestic Afghan politics to the possibility of war in Iraq. Asked if the Loya Jirga in June that elected his transitional government had merely produced an alliance among warlords and the new leaders in Kabul, Abdullah acknowledged that the process was imperfect. Nevertheless, he said, the Loya Jirga was an amazing feat for a country plagued by 23 years of war: "[The Loya Jirga] was the start of a situation where somebody, which you call a warlord, a leader of a [political] party, is sitting beside a carpenter, an ordinary man, ...