The recent issues between Afghanistan and Pakistan over the border could be solved via regular meetings of tripartite commission of Afghanistan, Pakistan and ISAF, an ISAF spokesman said on Monday.

"If anything happened in border region we meet in this so- called tri-partite commission on the regular bases on different levels and in these meetings we discuss what was going on. What was the assessment of the Afghan side and what was the assessment of the Pakistani side. So we exchange views we assess the situation that how we can together deescalate and how we can together improve the security situation in the border area," the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) spokesman, Brigadier General Gunter Katz, told a weekly press briefing here.

He made the comment in the wake of the recent border clashes between the two neighboring countries.

However, Katz said the ISAF forces were not involved in the recent clashes.

"We have a clear mandate that clearly states that we are here to ensure Afghanistan will never be a safe haven for terrorists and we are to provide security and stability in Afghanistan," the spokesman went on to say.

"The Tripartite Commission, the United Nations Security Council, etc, are the ways diplomatically that any issues between two sovereign countries should be dealt with. No one wants to see any escalation or inflammation of any situation. And that is the natural way for this to proceed," NATO civilian spokesman Dominic Medley said at the same briefing.

The comments came as the border forces of Afghanistan and Pakistan once again clashed in Goshta district of eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar earlier in the day, according to local media.

The skirmish took place Monday morning after the attempt of Pakistani forces to rebuild their posts in Goshta district.

In their previous clash which happened on Wednesday, an Afghan border policeman was killed and three others sustained injuries, according to Afghan officials. Enditem

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