WASHINGTON, Dec 5: US Vice President Dick Cheney will attend the first Afghan presidential inauguration in Kabul on Tuesday, a month before his own re-investiture, the White House has announced.

The announcement that Mr Cheney and his wife, Lynne, were scheduled to attend Tuesday's inauguration of President Hamid Karzai, who was elected president on Oct. 9 in Afghanistan's first presidential contest.

Defence Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, US Ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad, Assistant Secretary of State Christina Rocca and former presidential counselor Karen Hughes would also be part of the US delegation, the White House said.

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