Ready to host intra-Afghan talks, says Russia

KABUL (Pajhwok): Russia is willing to host representatives of the Taliban government and opposition figures if both sides want to meet in Moscow.

President Vladimir Putin’s special representative for Afghanistan said in an interview: “We have repeatedly confirmed our readiness to demonstrate hospitality if they are interested in that.”

He said Russia did not rule out the possibility of the Taliban government sending junior and middle-level diplomats to the Afghan embassy in Moscow.

Kabulov added some of the diplomats, appointed by the Ashraf Ghani administration, had already resigned their jobs and left Russia.

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