The US president has congratulated Hamid Karzai on his re-election as Afghanistan's president, but Barack Obama also told him that he must be "much more serious" about tackling corruption. "I emphasised that this has to be a point in time in which we write a new chapter based on improved governance, a much more serious effort to eradicate corruption [and] joint efforts to accelerate the training of Afghan security forces," Obama said at the White House. Obama's phone call to Karzai on Monday came hours after the US administration said it considered Karzai to be the legitimate president of Afghanistan. Karzai was declared the winner of Afghanistan's presidential election by the country's election commission after Abdullah Abdullah, his rival in a second round runoff vote, pulled out.
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