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Karzai urges US to stay the course on Afghan reconstruction

June 10, 2004 (10:10 PST)

CHICAGO: Afghan President Hamid Karzai pleaded for the United States to maintain the flow of aid to his troubled country, ahead of meetings with President George W. Bush and US lawmakers.

Karzai said his nation required "sustained, systematic assistance" from the United States in order to build on the reconstruction efforts undertaken since the ouster of the Taliban regime in late 2001.

"Our achievements, without your sustained assistance, may turn into no gains for us again," he told several hundred members of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations.

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