Gorbachev, Afghan President Hold Talks in Moscow
Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev and Afghanistan’s president, Najibullah, met Thursday for talks, the official Soviet news agency Tass reported.
Najibullah had been reported on vacation in the Soviet Union. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze also joined the talks.
Najibullah told Gorbachev and Shevardnadze that his government is trying to bring a peaceful end to his nation’s civil war and said Afghanistan is moving toward normalization and reconciliation, Tass said.
Najibullah has been locked in a struggle with rebels seeking to oust his Soviet-backed government. The Soviet Union sent troops into Afghanistan in 1979 to back Najibullah’s troops. It withdrew its troops last year.
The two leaders also discussed events in Iraq, but Tass provided few details.
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