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India to set up consulates in several Afghan cities

While a consulate general had already been set up at Mazar-e-Sharif, India proposed to set up consulates in Herat, Kandahar and Jalalabad, he said in New Delhi.

He said he would soon visit the United States to attend the United Nations General Assembly and hold bilateral talks in Washington on September 9 and 10.

Ever since taking over the Ministry of External Affairs eight weeks ago, Sinha said he had visited most of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation nations, including the Maldives, Bhutan, Nepal and Bangladesh.

Besides Afghanistan, he also visited Brunei to attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' Regional Conference to "reiterate and re-emphasise our policy of engagement with our immediate neighbours".

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