US refused to help Daud's govt against Soviet threat

BOSTON, Dec 23 (Pajhwok Afghan News): A few years before the Russian forces invaded Afghanistan, Washington had bluntly refused to supply arms and ammunition to Kabul to protect itself from a possible aggression, reveal classified documents made public by the State Department. --- In fact, such was the seriousness and a foreign threat perception considered by the Daud Administration that the Afghan president sent special envoy Mohammad Aziz Naeem to meet then US president Gerald Ford inWashington DC on July 1, 1976. --- The meeting - attended by former secretary of state Henry A Kissinger and then Afghan planning minister Ali Ahmad Khurram and the director-general at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs - was held at the Oval office of the US president and lasted 46 minutes. --- The documents declassified by the State Department, in fact, show a kind of desperation by the Daud administration to protect the country from a foreign invasion and get closer to the United States rather than the Soviets.