TITLE

Taleban offer opium diplomacy

PUB. DATE
October 1998
SOURCE
MEED: Middle East Economic Digest;10/16/98, Vol. 42 Issue 42, p9
SOURCE TYPE
Trade Publication
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Reports on the plea of Mullah Mohammad Omar, the supreme leader of Taleban militia in Afghanistan, for international recognition of his government. Pledge of the supreme leader to stop Afghanistan's opium production for the recognition; Tension between Iran and Afghanistan.
ACCESSION #
1211841

Tags: AFGHANISTAN -- Politics & government;  IRAN -- Foreign relations;  INTERNATIONAL relations

 

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