The World - News from April 3, 1988

The main Afghan guerrilla alliance warned that it would continue to fight the Kabul government and Soviet troops in Afghanistan if a U.N.-mediated peace agreement is signed in its present form. A statement by alliance leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in Pakistan said any accord that fails to set up an interim Afghan government and stop Soviet military aid to Kabul would be unacceptable. Geneva talks on the pact are stalled by a U.S.-Soviet dispute over arms supplies, with Moscow insisting on its right to aid Kabul, and the United States saying it will continue supplying arms to the guerrillas until the Soviets stop their military aid.