Soviets Assail U.S. for Sending Arms to Afghan Rebels
Less than 24 hours after the signing of the Geneva accords on Afghanistan, the Soviet news agency Tass accused the United States on Friday of trying to undercut the agreement by continuing to supply weapons to the Afghan insurgents.
“Washington is confirming its policy of neo-globalism, a course of export of counterrevolution,” the news agency said.
The agreement signed Thursday in Geneva paves the way for the May 15 start of the withdrawal of the estimated 115,000 Soviet troops now in Afghanistan, provides for the return of millions of Afghan refugees to their homeland, and pledges Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan not to interfere in each other’s internal affairs or support insurgents against the other. Pakistan is where most of the refugees are living and is the base for Afghan guerrillas.
The United States and the Soviet Union signed as guarantors of the U.N.-mediated agreement.
The United States and Soviet Union both reserved the right to continue providing military assistance to the warring sides.
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