US Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday hoped that talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and top Pakistani officials, including Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Kayani, would be productive as NATO prepares to withdraw from Afghanistan next year.
Kerry, who arranged the trilateral meeting on top of his visit to Brussels for a NATO foreign ministers gathering, said he was “very hopeful for a productive series of discussions”.
The talks will cover “security and other issues regarding the relationships in the region as well as the road forward heading towards 2014”, Kerry said.
This is a “critical transformational period”, he added, welcoming Karzai, General Kayani and Foreign Secretary Jalil Abbas Jilani.
Karzai thanked Kerry for arranging the meeting and said “let’s look forward for the best”.
Jilani echoed that remark, saying it was an “important meeting. We are looking forward to a very productive discussion”.
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