Afghan negotiators at the landmark power-sharing conference were close to an agreement on a post-Taliban interim administration, but still needed to hammer out details, delegates said Sunday.
Hussain Anwari, a senior negotiator from the powerful Northern Alliance group, said they had yet to receive a text of the blueprint agreement in the official Afghan languages of Dari and Pashto.
"The interim administration has been discussed. There is closeness in the positions of brothers in this respect," he told AFP, however.
The United Nations which is sponsoring the talks near Bonn was due to present the translated versions of its eight-page power-sharing draft accord to the Afghan groups by the wee hours of Sunday.
A diplomat close to the talks at the German government's secluded Petersberg guest house near Bonn said there had been no major shift in positions overnight.
Anwari said names of candidates to the proposed interim body of over 20 members had not yet been discussed.
The UN blueprint, presented by the UN Saturday night, also outlines the tasks of the interim government which is supposed to fill the current political vacuum in the wake of the Taliban's flight last month -- AFP
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