KABUL - President Hamid Karzai, supporting all sincere reconciliation efforts, on Tuesday asked the Taliban to prevent foreign-aided elements from disruptive activities in the country.

Addressing a joint news conference with visiting German President Joachim Gauck in Kabul, Karzai said his administration was pursuing its peace agenda despite attacks on government figures, schools and other targets.

Undeterred by continued insurgent-linked violence, the government welcomed all genuine peace moves from the global community and influential Afghan figures, the president added. He would not leave the peace path, he insisted.

Later this week, representatives of the Afghan government, Taliban and other groups will meet near Paris to confer on the post-2014 situation, when NATO-led combat troops are scheduled to leave the country.

Karzai has accorded approval to the talks on the future of his country, from where the last batch of French troops withdrew on Saturday.

As the authorities are pressing ahead with the peace effort, continued rebel assaults would remain etched on people's memory, the president remarked.

Security transition would not be a cumbersome process, because the world, including Germany, had promised to continue assisting Afghanistan until 2024, he said.

While praising German aid to his country over the past 10 years, Karzai hoped Kabul-Berlin relations would further grow in the years to come.

For his part, President Gauck promised German assistance to Afghanistan would continue beyond 2014, when all NATO-led combat troops are to leave the country.

With regard to the ongoing reconciliation drive, he voiced optimism that effective steps would be initiated to speed up the process.

Before his meeting with Karzai, the German dignitary arrived in Kabul at the head of a high-level delegation.

Almost 4,300 German soldiers within the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) framework are currently stationed in northern Afghanistan. At least 53 have been killed so far during their mission. (Pajhwok)