The World - News from May 15, 1986
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The Soviet Union wants to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan “in the near future,” a senior Kremlin official said. Anatoly F. Dobrynin, former ambassador to the United States, told the Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Organization in Moscow that the withdrawal schedule requires only that a political settlement be implemented, the official news agency Tass reported. Dobrynin said Moscow hopes for success in indirect U.N.-sponsored talks in Geneva between Pakistan and the Afghan government.
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