TALIBAN MEADOWS THE REQUEST OF THE UN-CSecretary-cGeneral BACK TO STOP
DESTRUCTION OF BUDDHISTI STATUES








ISLAMABAD, 11 March.  / Vladimir Schreter, korrespondent of the RIA "
Nowosti " /. the Taliban are not the personal request of UN
Secretary-General Kofi Annan to stop the destruction of the
buddhistischen statues in Afghanistan followed.  The avowed Wakil
Ahmad Mutawakil, minister of foreign affairs of the Taliban
government, after the negotiations with the UN Secretary-General and
representatives of the State Department of Pakistan.

Mutawakil, which had arrived in Islamabad particularly to the meeting
with Kofi Annan, explained:  " the question over the destruction of
the statues is expressed one internal affair of the Islamic emirate
Afghanistan. "  The existence of such Idole contradicts the Islamic
laws, therefore the verdict of the religious director/conductor of the
Taliban Mullah Omar is fulfilled to Mutawakil in its entirety - so.