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Afghanistan: Taliban to meet Western officials in Norway for aid talks
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KABUL, 22 January 2022, (TON): The Norwegian and Taliban governments said “the Taliban will hold talks with Western officials in Oslo next week on human rights and humanitarian aid in their first official visit to the West since returning to power.”
It said “the visit from Sunday to Tuesday will see meetings with Norwegian authorities and officials from a number of allied countries, including Britain, the European Union, France, Germany, Italy and the United States.”
Norwegian Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt said "we are extremely concerned about the grave situation in Afghanistan, where millions of people are facing a full-blown humanitarian disaster.”
The Taliban swept back to power in Afghanistan last summer as international troops withdrew after a two-decade presence.
A US-led invasion in late 2001 had toppled the Taliban in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
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