Foreign Ministry extends condolences to people of Afghanistan with regard to terrorist blast victims

18 Feb 2008

 

The acting Foreign Minister, Minister of Education and Science Tatjana Koke has conveyed her sincerest condolences on behalf of the Foreign Ministry to the people of Afghanistan. A letter of condolences was sent to the Afghan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr Rangin Dadfar Spanta, with regard to an act of terror committed by a suicide bomber on 17 February in the city of Kandahar. More than 100 people, including children died in the explosion.   


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