BUSH AFGHANISTAN - The President George Bush has arrived in Afghanistan for a five-hour stop ahead of his three-day visit to India. The president George Bush arrived about 12.30 pm local time at the American military base at Bagram airport, north of Kabul.

George Bush started his tour on Wednesday in Asia of the South with a surprised visit in Afghanistan. It is the first visit of the president Bush in Afghanistan. While visit was not officially announced, the president Bush went in Afghanistan to meet his counterpart Hamid Karzai and have lunch with him. Having accompanied by his spouse Laura Bush, Mr Bush, during her stopover in Kabul en route to India, he had to discuss with the Afghan president Hamid Karzai in the American military foundation in Bagram, in 50 km north of Kabul. Important safety measures were unfolded for this visit of some hours.

President Bush makes first visit to Afghanistan

This visit was not announced to avoid any flood of violence contrary to the president Bush. However rumours on his visit circulated before even the touchdown of Air Force One on the air military foundation of Bagram, main American military foundation in Afghanistan. After his lunch with Hamid Karzai and before leaving again for India where the president Bush intends to negotiate contracts on civil nuclear technology with India, the President should inaugurate the new American embassy, then to meet troops based on place.

The American troops make face for some weeks in a rebound of violence caused by Al-Qaïda and Talibans. More than 20 000 American soldiers are present in Afghanistan since 2001 to stalk the activists of talibans and Al-Qaïda. In New Delhi, several dozens thousand Indian, from which the majority are of Muslim confession, began demonstrating on Wednesday by scanning anti-American slogans such as « Died in Bush! ». In New Delhi, Bush will apply itself to reinforce relations between the United States and India, the rise of which in economic potency interests greatly, or even worries Washington owing to the relocations of jobs. The main point which will approach Bush and the Indian interlocutors will be the perspective of a bilateral nuclear agreement, the signature of which could be the nail of meeting between Bush and the Indian Prime minister, Manmohan Singh.

It is about the first visit of the president Bush in Afghanistan since the fall of taliban regime in 2001 and it is also the first visit of an American president many years 70. It is the second surprised visit of George Bush in the American troops based abroad. His last visit goes back up in 2003 when it went in Iraq to celebrate Thanksgiving. This tour of George Bush in Asia of the south is the first one of an American president in the region since that of Bill Clinton in year 2000.

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