Afghan presidential spokesman Hamayon Hamidzada said Tuesday that the doors for peace negotiations with Taliban rebels are open.
The doors for negotiations and reconciliation with all anti- goverment Afghans including the Taliban are open, Hamidzada told a press conference.
However, the government neither knows the address of the Taliban nor receives any proposals from it, he added.
On Monday, a Taliban spokesman, Yousuf Ahmadi, said the Taliban was ready to hold peace negotiations with the Afghan government.
Responding to comments by Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday, Ahmadi said the Taliban is in favor of solving Afghan problems through negotiations.
Karzai said Sunday that the door for negotiations with Taliban rebels was always open, but the Afghan government did not have their address or telephone number.
But Ahmadi rejected Karzai's saying, insisting that the Taliban was among the people and had an address.
This was the first time that the Taliban publicly expressed its readiness to hold peace talks with the government.
The Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, but the regime was toppled in late 2001 by the U.S.-led Afghan War.
Over the past two years, Taliban militants showed strong resurgence in Afghanistan and launched numerous attacks against foreign troops and government targets.
Source: Xinhua
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