Afghanistan says it is prepared to receive all the Afghan citizens currently being denied asylum in Germany, which is struggling with its largest influx of refugees since World War II.

Afghan deputy presidential spokesman Zafar Hashemi made the announcement on Monday.

The Afghan official said that Kabul had made the decision after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the matter.

As a signatory to the Geneva Conventions, Kabul was obligated to accept those of its citizens whose asylum applications have been rejected by authorities in Germany, Hashemi said.

Earlier, Afghanistan’s Minister for Refugees and Repatriation Hossain Alemi Balkhi voiced disapproval over Germany’s decision to return Afghans.

According to the Afghan minister’s office, 120,000 Afghans have left the country this year.

Afghans are the second largest group after Syrians to be arriving in Germany, which has been receiving hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing war and persecution.

On November 1, the German ruling "Grand Coalition" failed to reach an agreement on a plan to resolve the country's current refugee crisis following two rounds of talks.

According to Merkel’s spokesman, Steffen Seibert, the coalition failed to resolve differences regarding a proposal to establish airport-style processing points along those borders where refugees arrive.

Figures released by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) show that more than 724,000 refugees have reached Europe’s shores so far this year while over 3,300 people have either died or gone missing on their way to the continent.