An Afghan government negotiator said, Thursday, the Taliban proposed a three-month ceasefire in return for the release of about 7,000 insurgent prisoners held in Afghanistan's jails.
"It is a big demand," Nader Nadery told reporters, adding the insurgents also wanted the names of the movement's leaders to be removed from a United Nations blacklist.
A Taliban delegation in Moscow has previously revealed that the group controlled more than 85% of the territory in Afghanistan.
This claim was dismissed by the government, asserting to Russia that it would not allow the country to be used as a platform to attack others.
On the other hand, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov affirmed on Friday that Russia would not take any steps if tension in Afghanistan remains within its borders.
Lavrov asserted that Russia won’t implement any measures while the aggravation of the situation in Afghanistan is not influencing events in the territory of Moscow’s allies.
“As for the continued military action in the absence of the political process, then the events on Afghanistan’s territory concern us exclusively from the point of view of a possible spillover of troubles onto the territory of our allies,” he said.
“The fact that the Talibs have occupied border posts on the border with Iran, on the border with Tajikistan… while this is happening on Afghanistan’s territory, we’re not going to undertake any measures except for our insistent calls for the political process, which all Afghans have said they support, to happen as soon as possible,” the foreign minister added.
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