President Barack Obama says he called Afghan President Karzai to applaud his agreement to a second round vote.
Karzai's announcement on Tuesday came after a U.N. commission threw out nearly a third of the ballots cast for Karzai in Afghanistan's Aug. 20 presidential election.
Karzai came under heavy U.S. pressure to accept the U.N. findings, and Obama said he wanted to express his congratulations personally. Obama spoke to reporters about the Afghanistan situation after meeting in the Oval Office with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
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