US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice held talks with Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday which focused on the importance of Pakistan’s upcoming elections, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
"They talked about the importance of the upcoming elections and that they need to be free and fair elections," McCormak said after a closed-door bilateral meeting between the two on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Their talks also stressed the need for the Pakistani people to "have confidence" in the electoral process, he said.
Musharraf was in Davos on the second leg of a European tour aimed at shoring up his battered image after months of turmoil and the assassination of opposition leader and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto last month.
In Paris on Wednesday, Musharraf pledged that elections postponed after Bhutto was killed and now scheduled for February 18 would be free and fair.
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