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Talks With Taliban Needed to Accelerate Political Solution for Afghanistan

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According to the German chancellor, the talks with the Taliban is a necessary step to find the solution for the political situation in Afghanistan. 09.07.2016, Sputnik International

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Talks With Taliban Needed to Accelerate Political Solution for Afghanistan

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© AFP 2023 / JAVED TANVEERIn this photograph taken on November 3, 2015, Afghan Taliban fighters listen to Mullah Mohammad Rasool Akhund (unseen), the newly appointed leader of a breakaway faction of the Taliban, at Bakwah in the western province of Farah

In this photograph taken on November 3, 2015, Afghan Taliban fighters listen to Mullah Mohammad Rasool Akhund (unseen), the newly appointed leader of a breakaway faction of the Taliban, at Bakwah in the western province of Farah - Sputnik International

According to the German chancellor, the talks with the Taliban is a necessary step to find the solution for the political situation in Afghanistan.

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7 July 2016, 11:16 GMT

WARSAW (Sputnik) — The talks with the Taliban are required in order to find the solution for the political situation in Afghanistan, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Saturday.

"The political process of negotiations with the Taliban is needed to accelerate [reaching] a political solution for Afghanistan," Merkel told reporters at the NATO summit in Warsaw.

NATO summit is taking place in the Polish capital on July 8-9.