Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, Iranian vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar and Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi were also among about 150 people at the two-day meeting to exchange views about how to negotiate peace.
"There's no plan for formal peace talks (about Afghanistan) ... but if you are going to reach peace then those who disagree must talk together," Norwegian Foreign Minister Boerge Brende told news hounds at the start of the meeting.
A front man for the Afghan foreign ministry said Kabul...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title
Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
had sent a six-member delegation to the conference at Losby, 20 kms (12 miles) east of Oslo.
Afghan Taliban front man Zabihullah Mujahid said a three-man delegation was attending. He denied media reports that the two sides would hold peace talks to end a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people.