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Over two dozen politicians including some former ministers have registered their names to mulberry bags outlet contest in the next Afghan presidential elections set for April 5 next year, and Sunday was the busiest day for the election body when half of the presidential hopefuls offered their candidacy. Registration period for the candidates was set from Sept. 16 to Oct. 5. Prominent among those have stood for the presidential race are two former foreign ministers, namely Abdullah Abdullah and Zalmai Rassoul, and two former finance ministers, namely Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai and Anwarul Haq Ahadi, ex-defense minister Abdul Rahim Wardak and a former resistance leader and lawmaker Abdul Rab Rasoul Sayaf. All the candidates have almost similar motto which includes working for mulberry handbags peace and ensuring national unity and viable security in the country if elected for the top job to lead the country. Afghanistan's third presidential election in the post-Taliban country is slated for April 5, 2014. Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai contested in the previous presidential race in 2009 but were beat by incumbent President Hamid Karzai. Final list of the presidential candidates, according to the Election Complaints Commission, will be made public within the next one and half month. Taliban militants fighting the Afghan government to regain power have already termed the elections as "waste of time" and vowed to disrupt the electoral process. The hardliner Taliban outfit has already killed head of the election body in the northern Kunduz province and abducted two staff of the election entity in the northwest Faryab province. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott's APEC sideline meeting in Bali with Chinese michael kors canada President Xi Jinping is being closely observed back in Sydney with leading voices in government and industry applauding the new PM's early engagement. New South Wales Premier Barry O'Farrell said Monday he supported moves by Prime Minister Tony Abbott to strengthen ties with China, which included a plan for a Commonwealth-led trade mission to China which would include Premiers and business leaders. Abbott met Chinese President Xi Jinping in Bali on the sidelines of the APEC summit, where he delivered the message that he was committed to further growing the relationship between Australia and China. "Tony Abbott's strategy of engaging closely with China is welcomed by the NSW government and I offer him my full support as he works to strengthen this vital relationship," Farrell said. "It would be incredibly valuable for the NSW government to be part of a Commonwealth-led trade mulberry bags mission to China," he said. "It is essential we show China that Australia is united when it comes to strengthening our economic, cultural, academic and scientific links." "China is NSW's largest trading partner and that is why it is critical we work with the Commonwealth to enhance this relationship and examine opportunities for further growth," he added. "The message we need to send to Chinese government leaders and potential investors is that NSW and Australia are open for business," he noted. And that was the theme of Abbott's conversation with President Xi, assuring China that Australia was "open for business", emphasizing that the prime minister's coalition government's structural reforms, including the abolition of the mining and carbon taxes, would advance Australia's China-focused resources boom. Abbott reportedly also told President Xi that his government mulberry bayswater is seeking diversification in the economic relationship, as Premier O 'Farrell's state government has been doing in the last years. Earlier this year the NSW government released the International Engagement Strategy, which is the State's first whole-of- government approach to grow international trade and investment activities in NSW with priority markets, including China. China is NSW's largest bilateral trading partner. In 2011-12, two-way merchandise trade was valued at 26.8 billion Australian dollars. Laurie Pearcey, former CEO of the Australia China Business Council and current director of University of New South Wales(UNSW) 's China strategy told Xinhua that action was needed now if Australia was to transition its China michael kors bags uk relationship. "Australia is kidding itself if it thinks it can eternally ride the wave of its recent terms of trade boom and this statement from the prime minister is a welcome sign that the new government takes the China relationship seriously." Pearcey told Xinhua that the prime minister's initiative to include state premiers in trade diplomacy is long overdue. "This means that the term 'Team Australia' will finally mean something. State governments have been doing their own thing for far too long and while its understandable that they pursue their own interests, the reality is that Brand Australia carries significant clout in-market but individual states carry michael kors handbags uk limited brand recognition. Prospects to invest in Indonesia remain good due to the country's continued economic growth and its capability in managing risks, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said here Sunday. At least five people including three policemen were killed and six others injured Monday morning when a bomb blast hit Pakistan's northwestern provincial capital of Peshawar, local media reported. According to the reports, the blast targeted a medical dispensary where staffs were collecting their vaccination material in the Badaber area in the outskirts of Peshawar, killing five and injuring eight others. Police and rescue teams rushed to the site and shifted the bodies and injured to the hospital in Peshawar. Hospital sources said that some of the injured were in critical condition. Nature of the blast was not known yet. No group or militant organization claimed responsibility for the attack yet. Despite the current global financial market turbulence, Indonesia is upbeat on long-term investment boost in the country as the government's package of michael kors sale policy measures, including substantive structural reform, has helped stabilize its domestic market, Yudhoyono said in his keynote speech at the APEC CEO Summit.