The Obama administration says it counseled the Karzai government against allowing the return of General Dostum, whose reputation threatens to cast a pall over the country's critical election process to which the United States has lent heavy support.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

Middle east oil is critical to the rise of India and China, and in that sense it's very much part of the economic process.

中东石油,对于中印的崛起非常关键，因此它是东南亚经济发展的,重大保障。

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