November 30, 2002	Saturday	Ramazan 24, 1423

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ISLAMABAD, Nov 29: Foreign Minister Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri will attend a conference being held in Bonn next week to evaluate progress in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban regime, foreign ministry officials said on Friday.

Kasuri was scheduled to meet, on the sidelines of the meeting, his German counterpart Joschka Fischer and British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, officials said. Meetings with other leaders were being arranged.

“Bilateral ties, the regional situation and Pakistan-India relations will come under discussion during these meetings,” ministry spokesman Aziz Ahmed Khan said.

The conference, to be attended by Afghan and regional leaders, European foreign ministers and United Nations and European Union representatives, will assess the security situation in Afghanistan and efforts to rebuild the country.—AFP