The World - News from March 31, 1988
An Afghan settlement is still possible, U.S. envoy Robert A. Peck said in Geneva where U.N.-mediated talks are stalled. Peck acknowledged that Moscow and Washington remain divided by an “apparently intractable problem”--Soviet determination to continue supplying arms to the Kabul government and American insistence that both superpowers stop military supplies to the two Afghan sides. But he said he is convinced that the Soviets want an agreement covering the withdrawal of their 115,000 troops, and he is ready to stay as long as necessary to find a solution.
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