Afghan President Hamid Karzai is to visit Berlin January 26-27, ahead of the key London conference on Afghanistan, a spokesman for Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday, DPA reported.
Ulrich Wilhelm said Karzai's visit would be an "important opportunity" to discuss the NATO strategy for the Afghan conflict ahead of the January 28 London meeting.
The members of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force for Afghanistan, plus the Afghan government itself, are to meet to discuss wide-ranging strategy issues after US President Barack Obama's announcement that he would send an extra 30,000 troops there.