Word: najib
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gorbachev and Afghan leader Najib issued a joint statement after meeting in the Soviet Central Asian city of Tashkent...
Draft documents in Geneva call for an end to outside aid for the rebels and U.S. officials have pressed for "symmetry," a simultaneous end of Soviet military aid to Najib's government...
Sources in Washington called the Gorbachev-Najib statement a positive sign of accommodation on the symmetry question but the State Department's public comment was limited to: "We have not yet received a response from the Soviet government on our proposal. Until it's received, we must reserve judgment...
Gorbachev and Najib declared in the eight-point communique they "believe that the last obstacles to concluding the agreements have now been removed thanks to constructive cooperation of all who are involved in the settlement, and favor their immediate signing...
...reason for the lack of progress is that after so much sacrifice, the mujahedin simply do not want to do business with Najib. Says Mohammed Nuristani, a rebel fighter: "How can we sit down with a man who has killed so many of our friends?" Another reason is the rivalry among rebel leaders. They range from religious zealots like Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, leader of Hezb-e-Islami (Gulbuddin), who want to erect a theocratic state, to Muslim moderates like Pir Gailani who favor the traditional Afghan way of life...