KABUL in the coming days, but the unity government in Kabul said it preferred direct talks with the insurgents only.
Tass, the Russian state-run news agency, quoted the Foreign Ministry as saying that the talks were unrelated to formal negotiations that the Russian government previously hosted, including a November conference in Moscow hosted by Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov that Taliban representatives also attended.
An Afghan diaspora group in Moscow is organizing the talks on Tuesday and . . .
