KABUL, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- Afghanistan has strategic ties with the United States and under the new U.S. government, the relations between Washington and Kabul will further improve, said Afghan chief presidential spokesman Thursday.
"Afghanistan has strategic and firm relations with the United States. We are confident that Afghanistan's ties with the United States will further strengthen under the new U.S. administration," Mohammad Haroon Chakhansori told a press briefing.
In 2012, Afghan former President Hamid Karzai and outgoing U.S. President Barack Obama signed a strategic deal in Kabul and Obama declared Afghanistan as a major non-NATO ally of the United States.
Chakhansori said that Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump had already discussed relations between the two countries and exchanged views on different topics during a recent telephone conversation.
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