Afghan endgame gets into high-gear with Turkey meet

The Afghan endgame gets into high-gear from Wednesday with the one-day Istanbul conference of 15 Foreign Ministers, including External Affairs Minister S.M. Krishna. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was to be the sole Western representative (she has dropped out due to personal reasons) while all the other Foreign Ministers are from Afghanistan's immediate neighbourhood — Pakistan, Iran, China and most Central Asian “stans” — or neighbours of the neighbours, such as India, UAE, Russia and Saudi Arabia.

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