The World - News from April 20, 1989

Afghan President Najibullah offered to meet with President Bush to seek a solution to the country’s civil war, saying that only negotiations could produce a broad-based government--including members of his Soviet-backed regime and Muslim guerrillas--and bring peace. Najibullah, in an interview with a CBS-TV, described the U.S. policy of arming and financing the moujahedeen rebels as morally wrong. The Afghan government also criticized the Administration’s decision to provide $105 million in new non-military aid to the rebels, saying it violated the U.N.-brokered Geneva peace accords that provided for the withdrawal of Soviet forces in Afghanistan.