Important U.S.-Afghanistan-Pakistan trilateral for Clinton

Posted By P.J. Aroon Wednesday, May 6, 2009 - 2:09 PM Share

Hillary Clinton with Shimon Peres, May 5, 2009 

After a day heavy with bilaterals (including one with Israeli President Shimon Peres, above), Secretary Clinton has a crucially important day today. The presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan are in Washington. She has a bilateral with each and a trilateral with both together.

Some people, including Clinton, fear that Pakistan's Taliban insurgency threatens the government. Two weeks ago, with Islamist militants just 60 miles from Islamabad, the capital of nuclear-armed Pakistan, Clinton declared to the House Foreign Affairs Committee: "[We] cannot underscore [enough] the seriousness of the existential threat posed to the state of Pakistan by the continuing advances."

9:15 a.m. Bilateral with His Excellency Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
 
9:45 a.m. Bilateral with His Excellency Asif Ali Zardari, President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan
 
10:30 a.m. US-Afghanistan-Pakistan Trilateral Consultations II

Photo: Amos Ben Gershom/GPO via Getty Images

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