Hamid Karzai at the Afghanistan Conference

Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke about Afghan leadership andownership at the opening of the Afghanistan Conference in London.Karzai touched on his much publicized plan to re-integrate fellowAfghans into the government and mainstream society and applauded theefforts of the UN to take some Taliban members off of their blacklist.Karzai also said that Afghanistan is "looking forward to free and fairparliamentary elections," continuing that the government plans to workwith the international community to prevent irregularities at the polls.

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