French Foreign Minister: Karzai is 'Corrupt' but He Is 'Our Guy'

Kouchner, speaking in an interview for the New York Times, said the allies had no choice but to work with Karzai in order to get the mission in Afghanistan back on track. Photo by visitbulgaria.info

French Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, has stated that although Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai is “corrupt” NATO must accept that “he is our guy”.

Karzai was named president for his second term on Monday after his main opponent Abdullah Abdullah, said he would not take part. The first round of election results were marred by massive fraud.

Nevertheless, Kouchner, speaking in an interview for the New York Times, said the allies had no choice but to work with Karzai in order to get the mission in Afghanistan back on track and start building a state capable of protecting its people and holding of the Taliban.

Kouchner also complained that President Barack Obama's US administration was drawing up a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan without consulting its European allies within NATO, leaving them in the dark.

"What is the goal? What is the road? And in the name of what?" Kouchner asked, according to the New York Times report. "Where are the Americans? It begins to be a problem ... We need to talk to each other as allies."

France has given Karzai a nine-point plan it feels will help him reform his government and has urged him to find a way to work with his bitter defeated election rival, former foreign minister Abdullah Abdullah.

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