The World - News from Dec. 4, 1986
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Afghanistan and Pakistan have agreed to resume indirect talks Feb. 11 in Geneva aimed at ending the seven-year-old Afghan conflict, a U.N. mediator said. But the two sides remain far apart on the issue of Soviet military withdrawal, U.N. Undersecretary Diego Cordovez told reporters in Islamabad, Pakistan, at the end of a two-week mission that included visits to Kabul, Islamabad and Tehran. The talks have been held under U.N. auspices in Geneva since 1982. The last round ended in August.
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