Afghanistan troops offer
,-3NZPA-Reuter Moscow The Kremlin leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, has offered to withdraw Soviet troops from Afghanistan in 10 months from May 15 in a move seen as improving prospects for a rapid settlement of the nine-year Afghan war.
Mr Gorbachev made his offer conditional on the achievement of a peace accord by March 15 at indirect Geneva talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan mediated by the United Nations.
But his proposal contained a number of concessions which analysts said could speed the
way to agreement between parties involved in the war between the Soviet-backed Kabul Government and rebels supported by the United States and other countries. “The Governments of the Soviet Union and the Republic of Afghanistan have agreed to set a specific date for beginning the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan — May 15, 1988 — and to complete their withdrawal within 10 months,” Mr Gorbachev said in a statement issued by Tass. He said “a relatively greater portion of the Soviet contingent” could leave in the first stage of a pullout.
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