PARIS — France’s president was expected to announce Friday whether he will order an accelerated withdrawal of French soldiers from Afghanistan after meeting with President Hamid Karzai – a move that could be rich in implications for the NATO-led alliance.

Nicolas Sarkozy was hosting Karzai for a long-scheduled meeting a week after four French troops in the NATO-led mission were shot dead by an Afghan trainee at a joint base in eastern Afghanistan.

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