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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chalu2 who wrote (8269)	10/22/2001 4:52:28 PM
From: Lola	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 27666

India, Russia see no place for Taliban in new govt NEW DELHI, Oct 19 (Reuters) - India and Russia agreed on Friday there should be no place for the Taliban in the Afghanistan government set up should they be toppled. "We both agreed that there are no good or bad terrorists...a moderate Taliban is a contradiction in terms," India's Ministry of External Affairs spokeswoman Nirupama Rao told reporters. Pakistan has emphasised the need for a continuing role for "moderate" members of the hardline Islamic movement, which it backed until the September 11 attacks on the United States. The United States, anxious to keep wide support for its "war on terrorism", appears to be deliberately imprecise. Russia, which arms the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, had already made it clear that it finds the prospect of Taliban participation in a future government unacceptable. Its stand was backed by India during a two-day meeting of the India-Russia Joint Working Group on Afghanistan in New Delhi. India said in a statement on the meeting that it was essential to ensure a broad-based independent government which had equitable representation of all ethnic groups and which did not "radiate extremism and fundamentalism". "Both sides also agreed that in any such future government there can be no place for the Taliban movement," it said. "The obscurantist, malevolent, extremist and violent ideologies on which the Taliban movement is based will pose a substantial danger to the stability of any broad-based, multi-ethnic government in addition to providing a fillip to terorrism and narcotics smuggling emanating from Afghanistan." The statement also took a dig at state-sponsored terrorism, using language New Delhi has used before to refer to Pakistan. It said the two sides agreed that the main reason terorrism had become a global threat was because of the sponsorship and support that militant groups receive from "certain countries that use terrorism as an instrument of policy". New Delhi has accused Islamabad in the past of making terrorism a state policy, saying it foments the rebellion against Indian rule in Kashmir by arming Islamic militants and sending them into the region. Pakistan denies the charge.