the Talks in Qatar have been closed for six days. A preliminary settlement to the 17-year-long war will come to its end means concessions from both sides, according to sources for Reuters news agency and for the united states’s official radio station Voice of America (VOA).
the united states demands that the taliban relate to a ”limited and conditional” truce – and, in return, commits the united states to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan within an 18-month period from the date a settlement is signed, according to the data.
to Reuters that the islamist rebel movement came to the negotiating table with the certainty that a terrorist group like IS and al-Qaeda will not be able to be deleted from the Afghanistan to attack the united states or its allies.
U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad announces via Twitter that he is leaving Qatar for new talks in Afghanistan. He says that the talks have borne more fruit than the previous call, and confirms that it made ”significant progress in significant issues”.
”We have a number of issues left to sort out. Nothing is agreed until everything is agreed and ’everything’ must include an internal afghan dialogue and a cohesive truce”, writes Khalilzad.
published last Monday, according to the VOA’s sources, which does not exclude that the president of the united states Donald Trump is highlighting it in his upcoming speech to the nation.
The u.s. embassy in Kabul have not confirmed the data.