Press Release

Date of Release: 15 August 2005

Arg, Presidential Compound, Kabul – H.E. Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, expressed his regret at the death of 121 people on board a Cyprus plane which crashed into a mountainside in suburban Athens on Sunday, 14 August 2005.

The President, on behalf of the people of Afghanistan and the Government, expressed his heartfelt condolences to the families of the victims and the people of Greece and Cyprus.

Released by the Office of the Spokesman to the President

Islamic Republic of Afghanistan