"Pakistan itself has committed to supporting reconciliation, and joined in the positive statements made in Istanbul and Bonn in that regard," the US State Department spokesperson, Victoria Nuland, told reporters.
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"Our goal is to get Afghans talking to Afghans, to get a process of reconciliation that is among Afghans. We have said that we believe that Pakistan has a role to play in supporting this process, as we do; Secretary of State (Hillary Clinton) spoke to the Pakistanis about that when she was in Pakistan in October," Nuland said in response to a question.
The Special US Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Marc Grossman, recently was in Kabul and met the Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai twice in less than a week, she said. He could not travel to Islamabad as Pakistanis thought this was not a good time for them. But, there has been a high level interaction between the two countries, Nuland added.
