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Kabul, Taliban to hold Saudi talks

31/01/2012 11:17:00
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Afghan government officials and representatives of the country’s former Taliban rulers are to hold peace talks in Saudi Arabia, a Riyadh-based Afghan diplomat said yesterday.
The diplomat did not give a timing but told AFP on condition of anonymity the talks in Saudi would be separate from the US-brokered meetings held in Qatar and be the first such talks to take place in the Sunni Muslim kingdom.
Taliban negotiators have begun preliminary discussions with the United States in Qatar on plans for peace talks aimed at ending the decade-long war in Afghanistan.
They have also announced plans to set up an office in Doha.

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