Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Kabul (BNA) German Prime Minister Angela Merkel yesterday afternoon telephoned Hamid Karzai, president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and offered him condolences over Panjwayee incident in which 16 innocent civilians were killed and five others injured in a spree shooting by a US soldier.
The German chancellor who arrived yesterday in Mazar-e-Sharif in a telephone conversation evaluated security transition process as successful and pledged for further cooperation in this regard.
In return, President Hamid Karzai welcomed the German Chancellor to Afghanistan and appreciated Germany and its people for their cooperation with Afghanistan, adding the recent Bonn conference was a good example of such cooperation.
In the telephone conference, the German Chancellor asked the Afghan president to travel to Germany before Chicago conference to discuss related to strategic cooperation between Afghanistan and Germany.
It is worth mentioning that the strategic cooperation between Germany and Afghanistan was once discussed during the current year in the sidelines of Bonn conference and was agreed signing a long-term strategic cooperation between the two countries.
