A senior United Nations official in Afghanistan, Jan Kubis, confirmed to press today that the Taliban had shown signs of willingness to meet and discuss the reduction of civilian casualties with the UN.
Afghanistan has seen a 24 percent civilian casualty in the first half of this year, most of which have been caused by anti-government forces.
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