Ahmad Shakib Mostaghani, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, said on Sunday officials from Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States had laid out a roadmap toward peace talks at their latest meeting in Islamabad.
He says representatives of the four countries, who met Saturday, stressed a political settlement to the war, now in its 15th year, the Associated Press reported.
A meeting between Kabul and Taliban representatives within the coming weeks would be viewed as a huge step forward in a peace process that stalled last year.
The next four-country meeting is scheduled for Feb. 23 in Kabul.