The World - News from July 23, 1987
The United States assailed Afghan leader Najib’s proposals on reconciliation with Muslim rebels. State Department spokesman Charles Redman said there could be no peaceful solution to the Afghan conflict without the withdrawal of the estimated 115,000 Soviet troops in the country. Najib, at a news conference in Moscow, said the Soviet troops could not go home until all “outside aggression” had ceased and Kabul received firm guarantees that it would not resume. He renewed his offer to rebels to join a coalition government in Kabul.
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