Presidential Palace, Kabul – H.E. Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is saddened by the news of an earthquake yesterday striking Indonesia's west coast and killing undreds of people. First reports show that the epicenter of the earthquake was on the Sumatra island of Nias.

Presidential Palace, Kabul – H.E. Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is deeply disturbed by the Band-e-Sultan dam burst incident this morning in Ghazni province, causing extensive flooding in villages and in the streets of Ghazni city.

Presidential Palace, Kabul – H.E. Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, met this afternoon with H.E. Traian Basescu, President of Romania.

Presidential Palace, Kabul – H.E. Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, welcomes the result of the Rapid Assessment Survey of poppy cultivation and eradication carried out jointly by United Nations Office for Drugs & Crime and the Ministry of Counter Narcotics.

Kabul – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan would like to announce that H.E Li Zhaoxing, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China is expected to arrive in Afghanistan for an official visit on Sunday, 3rd of April 2005. H.E Li Zhaoxing is also expected to participate in the opening ceremony of Afghanistan Development Forum (ADF) on the 4th of April.

Presidential Palace, Kabul - H.E. Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, and his accompanying delegation returned this afternoon from his official visit to Islamabad, Pakistan.

Kabul – H.E. Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, will leave tomorrow 22 March 2005 on an official visit to Islamabad, Pakistan.

The Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB) is pleased to announce that elections for the Wolesi Jirga and provincial councils will be held on Sunday, 18 September 2005.

Presidential Palace, Kabul - H.E. Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is deeply saddened by the news of a blast in a Shiite shrine in the village of Fatehpur, Baluchistan, Pakistan, resulting in the death of at least 27 people and many injuries.

Presidential Palace, Kabul - H.E. Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, extends his best wishes to the people of Iran and Tajikistan, as they celebrate the New Year Day (Solar Year 1384) tomorrow.

Kabul – Her Excellency Condoleezza Rice, the Secretary of State of the United States of America, is expected to arrive in Afghanistan for a one-day official visit on Thursday, March 17, 2005.

Presidential Palace, Kabul – H.E. Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, returned today from his three-day visit to Madrid, Spain.

Presidential Palace, Kabul - H.E. Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, left
today for Madrid, Spain, on an invitation by H.M. King Juan Carlos of Spain. The President will attend the International Summit on Democracy, Terrorism and Security.

Presidential Palace, Kabul - H.E. Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, congratulates today the women of Afghanistan and the world on the International Women's Day.

Mrs. Zahra Sadeqi, First Lady of Iran, has arrived today, 1 March 2005, at 11 am in Kabul at the invitation of Dr.Zinat Karzai, First Lady of Afghanistan, on a three-day friendly trip to Afghanistan.