U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry talks with Afghanistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs chief of protocol Ambassador Hamid Siddiq (L) as Kerry arrives at Kabul International airport in Kabul, July 11, 2014. REUTERS/Jim Bourg
KABUL (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Afghanistan on Friday for talks in an effort to broker a resolution to a disputed election that threatens to stir up ethnic tensions and undermine a peaceful political transition.
State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke said Kerry would meet with the country's two presidential candidates Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani, as well as Afghan President Hamid Karzai and officials from the United Nations.
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