UN backs Afghan August elections - AFP



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<img alt="" height="1" width="1">UN backs Afghan August elections

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UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - The United Nations expressed concern at the prospect of presidential elections in Afghanistan in April as requested by President Hamid Karzai, and instead backed the previously planned August polls.

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