The World - News from Jan. 22, 1988
U.N. mediator Diego Cordovez met in Islamabad with Pakistani officials at the start of a diplomatic mission that could lay the groundwork for a Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan this year. Cordovez, who will visit the Afghan capital of Kabul after his talks in Pakistan, consulted separately with Prime Minister Mohammed Khan Junejo and Zain Noorani, deputy foreign affairs minister. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said they discussed mid-February talks in Geneva, where Pakistan and Afghanistan are expected to chart a pullout of Soviet troops.
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