Kabul: As the March 10 deadline for the intra-Afghan negotiations approaches, Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah's office has finalized their list of delegates for the talks with the Taliban, a media report said.

In a statement on Monday, the office said that Abdullah had met with former Mujahideen leader Abdul Rab Rasul Sayyaf and former president Hamid Karzai where they discussed the recently signed US-Taliban peace agreement and ways to implement it, according to the TOLO News report

"The Chief Executive's Office and the Stability and Convergence team, in consultation with a number of elders and political leaders in Afghanistan, have finalized a list (for the negotiating team)," Abdullah's deputy spokesman Omid Maisam said.

"We hope that the Presidential Palace, as a part of the government of national unity, will participate (with the team)."

"We are not insisting that the delegation be all governmental people; we insist that the delegation be limited and effective and committed to the values of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan," TOLO News quoted Waheed Omar, a presidential advisor, as saying on Monday.

As of Tuesday, the Afghan government has eight days to form the negotiating team before the talks begin on March 10.