External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj will be visiting Afghanistan this month to hold talks with the government there.
Speaking at a press conference here on Monday, Swaraj said, "I am going to visit Afghanistan in two days. With this visit, we would have visited four of the eight countries, which form the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC), within three months of coming into office," she told a press conference here.
The External Affairs Minister had earlier visited Nepal, Bhutan and Bangladesh. The other countries that make up the SAARC, apart from India, are the Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
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