STOCKHOLM -- Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu Saturday called on the Soviet Union to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan as part of an overall political solution to the Afghan crisis.
Ceausescu, on a state visit to Sweden, also said Afghanistan and Pakistan should hold direct talks on halting aid to Afghan rebels.
'This is one of many questions to which we must find a political solution,' Ceausescu, a maverick within the Soviet camp, told a news conference.
'Soviet troops should withdraw from Afghanistan, and Afghanistan and Pakistan should hold direct talks on halting any help being given to anti-government forces,' he said.
Ceausescu also said the present unrest in Poland was strictly a Polish problem and must be solved by the Polish people alone.
He said he did not foresee any involvement of Warsaw pact forces in Poland and insisted that the problem was basically an economic one.
'We believe the Polish leaders and the Polish party are capable of solving these problems,' Ceausescu said.
The Romanian leader also said he had discussed plans for the upcoming Madrid conference on European security with Swedish Prime Minister Thorbjor Falldin and stressed the importance of disarmament questions.
Friday, Sweden and Romania made a joint proposal at the United Nations calling for a decrease in world military spending.
He warned against any plans to introduce nuclear weapons in Europe and said he hoped that the Madrid meeting would lead to a continuation of the spirit of the Helsinki accord.
Ceausescu, the first Romanian president to pay an official visit to Sweden, signed a five-year agreement aimed at increasing Swedish-Romanian trade. The two nations were also to sign a 10-year economic, industrial and technical pact.
He was to leave Sweden for Denmark Sunday and later travel toNorway.
