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| Leaders have wide agenda at Davos |
| For top world leaders, the agenda was politics and global market turmoil at the opening plenary of the World Economic Forum
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 24-January-2008
9:15:25 AM |
| For top world leaders, the agenda was politics and global market turmoil at the opening plenary of the World Economic Forum.
Leaders like Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Afghan President Hamid Karzai discussed issues ranging from terrorism, the Middle East to relations with Russia, China and Iran.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf to ensure that next month's elections are free and fair and urged him to boost counter terrorism cooperation with the US and neighbouring Afghanistan.
Meeting with Musharraf in Davos on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum, Rice praised him as a steadfast ally in the war on terror whose country would continue to receive substantial US support. But she stressed that he must uphold his stated commitment to democracy.
The meeting was the highest-level, face-to-face US contact with the Pakistani leader since last month's assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, and it came as Musharraf faces growing discontent at home and the Bush administration fights congressional efforts to curb its backing.
Separately, Rice and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, also in Davos, discussed counter terrorism and narcotics challenges as well as NATO's role in combating extremists in Afghanistan.
The alliance has faced recent US criticism.
''NATO is not performing perfectly,'' Rice said in a speech to the forum. ''We are engaged in a real war in Afghanistan.
This is not just a peacekeeping operation, and the stakes could not be higher for the Afghan people, for our alliance, and for our security.''
In remarks to the same audience, Karzai warned of the global danger from a ''wildfire spread of terrorism'' in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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