ASIA: Afghanistan welcomes Obama's election
05 Nov 2008 5:10 PMASIA: Afghanistan welcomes Obama's election
KABUL, Nov 5 AFP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai today congratulated Barack Obama on his US election victory, saying it took the world into a "new era".
"The election of Senator Barack Obama to the presidency of the United States has taken the American people and the rest of the world with them into a new era - an era where race, colour and ethnicity, I hope, will also disappear ... in politics in the rest of the world," he said.
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