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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said Saturday that Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had agreed to send a group of senior political leaders to the peace talks in Moscow, which would include a delegation representing the Taliban.
In August, Russia proposed the holding of multilateral peace talks in Moscow and invited 12 countries and the Taliban to attend a summit the following month. But the meeting was postponed after Ghani rejected the invitation on the grounds that talks with the Taliban should be led by the Afghan government.
In a statement released on Saturday, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that the talks would be held on 9 November.
"This will be the first time that a delegation of the Taliban political bureau in Doha will participate in a high-level international meeting," the Foreign Ministry said.
The ministry has invited several other countries to send representatives, including India, Iran, Pakistan, China and the United States.
(Report by Polina Ivanova, edited by Alexander Smith)
