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Published 11/06/2009 by FT.com - World

Brown seeks to rally public over Afghan war

Gordon Brown warned Hamid Karzai, the newly reappointed Afghan president, that he must meet five key tests over the next few months if he is to guarantee an effective partnership between his government and Nato over Afghanistan's future

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