KABUL and offered to host such talks, a statement from its Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday
“We strongly recommend that negotiations start as soon as possible... to put an end to the civil war,” the ministry said.
The statement added, Moscow was ready to provide a platform for direct talks between Afghanistan’s government and the Taliban movement.
The statement came ahead of Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to New York on January 18-19 . . .
