FROM EIR DAILY ALERTRussia Offers To Help to U.S. in Its Talks with the TalibanFeb. 7, 2019 (EIRNS)—According to a RIA Novosti report today, cited by Reuters, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Russia is ready to help the United States advance its negotiations with the Taliban on withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan. The offer was made yesterday after a Feb. 5-6 conference in Moscow, organized by the Afghan diaspora in Russia, attended by, among others, the Taliban and some non-government Afghan political figures including former President Hamid Karzai, Associated Press reported. Diplomat Zamir Kabulov, the Russian presidential envoy on Afghanistan, told RIA Novosti today that Russia is willing to assist the U.S. in talks with the Taliban on the withdrawal of U.S. troops, reported AP, but expressed doubt that the U.S. would pull out all of its troops. The Afghan talks between the Taliban and the U.S. are expected to resume soon in Doha. Meanwhile, Nadir Naim, an Afghan politician, in a Feb. 6 article for Al Jazeera, said the key to the resolution will lie in understanding the Taliban of today and not the Taliban of 1995 when it took power in Kabul. He emphasized that,
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