This visit today will I'm sure further promote the brotherly links between the two countries,

This visit will also pave the way for the strengthening of economic activity in this region. It will show us to a better more prosperous region.

We are in a much better situation today than we were six months ago, than we were a year ago or before that, ... I am sure six months from now, a year from now, Afghanistan will be better served by the government, better administered by the country and more secure.

We have a constitution that we have today which is the most enlightened in that part of the world, ... And that constitution has been made possible because of the liberation that you helped us gain and because of the stability that the United States helped us have in Afghanistan.

It will not end this year. It will not end next year. We may have it for many years to come. So Afghanistan will continue to have security incidents as it builds its security institutions.

we will tell them, 'go ahead and run this country.'