Thursday 17 March 2005, 12:16 Makka Time, 9:16 GMT
The diplomatic trip around Asia brought Condoleeza Rice in Afghanistan, meanwhile a car bomb exploded in the city of Kandahar, killing five people.
Rice's task in Afghanistan is to talk with the authorities about the main political issues.
"We'll continue to talk with the Afghans about reconstruction, about building an economy there, because that can be self-sustainable ... about the problems that they continue to face, continuing in the war on terror, and of course on the counter-narcotics side as well," she said when still in Washington D.c.
Al-Jazeera
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