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UNICEF still delivering aid to most parts of Afghanistan

FILE PHOTO: A UNICEF logo is pictured outside their offices in Geneva, Switzerland, January 30, 2017. Picture taken January 30, 2017. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo

The U.N. children's agency is still delivering aid to most parts of Afghanistan after the Taliban seized control and is quite hopeful for cooperation with Taliban representatives, the UNICEF field operations chief for the country said on Tuesday.

"We have ongoing discussions, we are quite optimistic based on those discussions. We have not a single issue with the Taliban in those field offices," Mustapha Ben Messaoud,

UNICEF's chief of field operations in Afghanistan, told a U.N. briefing in Geneva.

(Reporting by Emma Farge, writing by Emma Thomasson; editing by Stephanie Nebehay)

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