Taliban visits Moscow days after Trump says talks 'dead'
[Associated Press] KATHY GANNON and JIM HEINTZ
MOSCOW (AP) — A negotiating team from the Taliban arrived Friday in Russia, a representative told The Associated Press, just days after U.S. President Donald Trump declared dead a deal with the insurgent group in Afghanistan.
Russian state news agency Tass cited the Taliban's Qatar-based spokesman Suhail Shaheen as saying the delegation had held consultations with Zamir Kabulov, President Vladimir Putin's envoy for Afghanistan. The visit was confirmed to the AP by a Taliban official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to reporters.
The Interfax news agency cited an unidentified Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying the meeting in Russia underlined the necessity of renewing talks between the U.S. and the Taliban, and that the Taliban confirmed their readiness to continuing dialogue with Washington.
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Russia actually has real interests geographically on how Afghanistan is run, with ISIS being a menace in Afghanistan, even the Taliban are preferred more.
Russia doesn't border Afghanistan but Republics of the old USSR do, so Afghanistan is not that far off.
