Kerry meets Karzai in Kabul to press for security deal
克里会见卡尔扎伊 敦促达成安全协议
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul Friday in an effort to advance negotiations over a security pact that have stalled. The US wants a deal done by the end of the month. Karzai says it can wait until after presidential elections in April. The deal will determine the presence of U.S. forces in Afghanistan after most are withdrawn in 2014. Failure to reach an agreement could prompt Washington to pull out all of its forces at the end of 2014, an outcome known as the "zero option". On the ground Brigadier General Heinz Feldmann says there are some encouraging signs.
周五，美国国务卿约翰?克里(John Kerry)在喀布尔与阿富汗总统卡尔扎伊(Hamid Karzai)举行会谈，努力推进针对停滞已久的和平协议进行谈判。美国希望在月底之前达成协议。卡尔扎伊表示，他们希望等到4月份的总统选举结束后。该协议将决定2014年大部分军队撤退后美国军队在阿富汗的去留。如果未能达成协议，华盛顿方面必须在2014年底之前撤出所有军队，该结果被称为“零方案”。在现场，陆军准将Heinz Feldmann表示，也有一些鼓舞人心的迹象。
SOUNDBITE: BRIGADIER GENERAL HEINZ FELDMANN, SAYING: "We are almost at the end of the fighting season. We saw hard fighting in Afghanistan. High profile attacks, We saw in the last couple of weeks killings of Afghan officials. But we also saw that the Afghan National Security forces were able to counter these threats and challenges and they did well. "
陆军准将Heinz Feldmann：“我们已经接近战争季节的尾声。我们在阿富汗见证了非常惨烈的战斗。针对高级人物的袭击，过去几周，我们看到许多阿富汗官员被杀害。但是我们也看到，阿富汗国家安全力量能够应对这些威胁和挑战，他们做得很好。”
U.S. officials say Kerry is not expected to close on the security agreement but is expected to discuss "issues of mutual concern".
美国官员表示，克里预期不能达成安全协议，而有可能讨论双方共同关心的问题。
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