Ethnic tension a factor in Afghan vote: envoy

2009/08/22 05:11:37 @Reuters: International News

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his chief rival, who have both claimed election victory, have assured U.S. officials they will respect the outcome despite fears of ethnic unrest, Washington's top envoy said on Saturday. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=xaiAk_9PBKc:jQuJLVuWu9Y:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=xaiAk_9PBKc:jQuJLVuWu9Y:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=xaiAk_9PBKc:jQuJLVuWu9Y:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=xaiAk_9PBKc:jQuJLVuWu9Y:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=xaiAk_9PBKc:jQuJLVuWu9Y:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/xaiAk_9PBKc" height="1" width="1"/
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