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     COMMENTS: The Hague is the World’s Back Channel

The day's heavy foreign policy news agenda continued in The Hague, where Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton convened a conference on the reconstruction of Afghanistan. CBS' Lara Logan and NBC's Andrea Mitchell covered the proceedings, although, as Logan put it, it was "supposed to be all about Afghanistan and ended up being about much more." There were informal talks between the United States and Iran and feelers from Russia to the State Department about possible progress on terrorism, Iran, Afghanistan and "even their biggest disagreement, missile defense," NBC's Mitchell reported. CBS' Logan noted that Madame Secretary was even negotiating on North Korea."

And Afghanistan? Its "illegal opium trade provides 90% of the world's supply," CBS' Logan reminded us.


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