(MENAFN- Afghanistan Times) AT News Report
KABUL: Russia has asked the warring parties in Afghanistan
to cease hostilities rather strive for a genuine peace to be prevailed in the
country. Russia's Foreign Minister Spokesman, Maria Zakharova in a briefing on
recent development in Afghanistan on Tuesday said that they have noted a
considerable aggravation of the military-political situation in Afghanistan
lately.
According to her, the Taliban fighters staged a number of
large-scale attacks on military bases and checkpoints of government forces in
Afghanistan.
In another sensational terrorist attack, ISIS terrorist
group fired a barrage of mortar rounds against participants in a commemorative
event in Kabul on March 7 and wounded presidential candidate Latif Pedram.
In turn, aviation units of the international coalition and
Afghan government forces were trying not to reduce the intensity of air strikes
in areas controlled by the armed opposition, and efforts were being made to
maintain military pressure on the ground, she said.
'Moscow emphasized these hostilities took place in
conditions of continued talks between the United States and the Taliban on ways
to end the armed standoff and to establish a peace settlement in Afghanistan,'
she added.
'The media has even reported the conclusion of a preliminary
agreement on the terms for withdrawing foreign troops from Afghanistan;
however, this document's paper version should yet be coordinated as well as
approved.'
Zakharova added: 'Quite possibly, the warring parties are
trying to bolster their arguments at the talks by stepping up military pressure
We believe that this option has no future, and that it does not
facilitate the attainment of agreements.'
'In our opinion, it directly serves to torpedo them, not to
mention the fact that the continued war inflicts untold suffering on ordinary
Afghans'.
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