( CNN ) -- U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived Thursday in Afghanistan to speed up a resolution to the country 's election dispute , State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said . Kerry will be meeting with presidential candidates Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani and President Hamid Karzai . The visit comes two days after Maj. Gen. Harold Greene -- a longtime officer who was leading efforts to train soldiers in Afghanistan -- was killed at a military training facility in Kabul . Kerry recently brokered an agreement between the nation 's two presidential candidates to accept the outcome of an audit of the election . Preliminary results from the June runoff showed Ghani in the lead , but Abdullah alleged massive election fraud . The inauguration of the President , originally scheduled for the first week of August , was postponed while the votes are recounted . `` The secretary will follow up on his July visit to Kabul and his subsequent phone calls to the candidates , encouraging both to help accelerate the audit process which they are both participating in , and make progress on the details of the political framework that they agreed to during the Secretary 's last visit , '' Psaki said in a statement . `` The Secretary will encourage both candidates to work together in the spirit of collegiality and statesmanship , to ensure national unity and the means to build on the progress the Afghan people have achieved . '' Also : Why do some Afghan forces turn and kill allies ? Also : Profiles of Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah .
Visit comes a day after a U.S. major-general was killed in an insider attack . Kerry is following up on his July trip to Afghanistan . TL;DR Secretary of State John Kerry, who has been traveling the world for months, will visit Pakistan and India this week.