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UN Envoy: Prospect For Peace In Afghanistan ‘Has Never Been More Real’

18th December, 2018 · admin 23 Comments

un_logoRadio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
December 18, 2018

The United Nations envoy for Afghanistan says the prospect of negotiated end to the war in Afghanistan is closer than it has ever been.

The comments by Tadamichi Yamamoto on December 17 came as the Afghan Taliban said its representatives met with U.S. officials in the United Arab Emirates.

The preliminary talks were seen as an important step to launch formal peace negotiations with the Taliban.

Speaking at the UN Security Council, Yamamoto called on countries in the region “to contribute” in supporting the peace talks.

A negotiated peace “has never been more real…than it is now,” he said

“The key next step would be for representatives of the government and the Taliban to meet, or at least to formally initiate what in mediation is referred to as talks about talks,” he said.

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid offered few details of the December 17 meeting except to say that “discussions were held with the American side over the end to the invasion of Afghanistan.”

The Taliban has long refused to hold formal talks with the Afghan government, insisting on first brokering an agreement with the United States.

While Washington has neither denied nor confirmed previous meetings with the Taliban, U.S. special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has previously held at least two rounds of talks with Taliban officials.

The Taliban controls or contests nearly half of Afghanistan, where it is waging a deadly insurgency against the Western-backed Kabul government and government security forces.

The country has been at war on and off for more than 20 years.

Based on reporting by dpa and AP

Copyright (c) 2018. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 1201 Connecticut Ave NW, Ste 400, Washington DC 20036.

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23 thoughts on “UN Envoy: Prospect For Peace In Afghanistan ‘Has Never Been More Real’”

  1. BAGHLANI says:
    December 18, 2018 at 4:06 pm

    *KHALEELZAHD :
    ===========
    ===========
    THE AFGHAN
    FOUND
    (HENRY KISSINGER REPLICA) :
    •======••••=••••==••==•====•=••••••==•
    *
    Mr Kissinger
    is enthusiastically watching his “live replica”
    in
    action from his nursing home- hoping for
    Khaleelzah
    to
    be able to achieve what
    he was able
    to
    pull off and
    accomplish skillfully during
    during those tense years
    of
    the
    “cold war”
    era.
    ====
    ==
    =
    .
    IT IS
    “AMAZING”
    TO SEE, HOW
    THE
    ANGLO/US
    CROOKED AND SAVY
    SCOUTS
    FIND THESE KINDs
    OF
    GOOFY; BUT, YET VERY PRACTICAL CHARACTERS
    ((“MEERZA-QALUMS”))
    FROM THE PILE AND TURN THEM
    INTO
    INTERNATIONAL
    “SUPER-ICONS” !
    *
    **
    *
    *HE LOVES
    AMERICA- JUST LIKE
    *DONALD TRUMP

    Reply
  2. BAGHLANI says:
    December 18, 2018 at 4:08 pm

    Get read :
    ***
    **
    *
    A
    “ NOBLE PRIZE”
    is
    in
    order !

    Reply
  3. BAGHLANI says:
    December 18, 2018 at 4:09 pm

    *SORRY !
    .
    .
    Meant to say:
    *
    GET READY !

    Reply
  4. BAGHLANI says:
    December 18, 2018 at 4:52 pm

    *THE
    CRIMINAL
    FOREIGN FORCES
    MUST EVACUATE
    .
    *GREAT
    AFGHANISTAN!

    Reply
  5. BAGHLANI says:
    December 18, 2018 at 4:54 pm

    *IT IS
    THE RIGHT
    **************
    *******
    ***
    “TIMING” !

    Reply
  6. BAGHLANI says:
    December 18, 2018 at 4:55 pm

    *STILL !

    Reply
  7. BAGHLANI says:
    December 18, 2018 at 4:56 pm

    *GET OUT !

    Reply
  8. BAGHLANI says:
    December 18, 2018 at 9:59 pm

    *AND- IMMEDIATELY. !

    Reply
  9. BAGHLANI says:
    December 18, 2018 at 10:04 pm

    YOU HAVE HUGE ENSLAVED
    PAKISTANI ARMY, IN THE REGION
    TO
    ASSIT YOU- ON
    A
    SHORT NOTICE,

    Reply
  10. BAGHLANI says:
    December 18, 2018 at 10:12 pm

    *Enough of your savageries
    in
    Afghanistan- just
    go away for good !
    ======
    ======
    ======
    DON’T FORGET
    TO
    TAKE OUT
    ALL
    OF
    YOUR
    LOCAL “CAMP- FOLLOWERS”
    AND
    GOOFY “PUPPETS”
    AS WELL; IF
    YOU WISH SO !!!!!!

    Reply
  11. BAGHLANI says:
    December 18, 2018 at 10:13 pm

    *YOU ARE
    ALL
    UNWANTED !

    Reply
  12. BAGHLANI says:
    December 18, 2018 at 10:23 pm

    Tens of thousands
    of
    “camp-followers”
    and
    hundreds
    of
    high-profiled devoted
    “PUPPETS” !

    Reply
  13. BAGHLANI says:
    December 18, 2018 at 10:28 pm

    *IN FACT; YOU COULD
    DUMP THEM ALL
    IN
    PAKISTAN !
    ========
    ========
    From there; they would have the
    freedom
    of
    access to any global destination they
    desire.

    Reply
  14. BAGHLANI says:
    December 18, 2018 at 10:32 pm

    The cost is nothing comparable
    to
    the
    trillions that you already spent !

    Reply
  15. BAGHLANI says:
    December 18, 2018 at 10:38 pm

    *THEN, AN
    .
    GENUINE
    “INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONFERENCE
    .
    COULD HOPEFULLY”
    BRING
    PEACE, STABILITY AND MUTUAL
    RESPECT
    TO
    ALL THR PEOPLE
    OF
    AFGHANISTAN
    AND
    TO
    THE WHOLE REGION.

    Reply
  16. BAGHLANI says:
    December 18, 2018 at 10:39 pm

    *ENOUGH
    OF
    YOUR B.S. !!!!!

    Reply
  17. BAGHLANI says:
    December 18, 2018 at 10:52 pm

    After, all that;
    =========
    =========
    All those cowards who staged the
    grand invasions
    of
    Afghanistan and committed serious crimes in the last almost
    40 years
    must be brought forth to face the justice for committing heinous crimes against the humanity- and all
    in
    presence of a
    newly-elected and fair-minded
    United Nation
    GRAND BODY.

    Reply
  18. BAGHLANI says:
    December 18, 2018 at 10:53 pm

    WOULD
    IT
    BE
    POSSIBLE ?????

    Reply
  19. BAGHLANI says:
    December 18, 2018 at 10:54 pm

    I WOULD SAY:
    “definitely yes”.

    Reply
  20. BAGHLANI says:
    December 18, 2018 at 11:08 pm

    IF THEY COULD LAND
    A
    “GOOFY MAN” ON THE
    MOON; THEN, LOGICALLY>>>>>>>>
    ((they say))
    “ANYTHING WOULD BE POSSIBLE” !
    *
    WOULD IT ?????
    =======
    =====
    ===
    NO !
    ===
    *ARROGANCE AND USELESS *PRIDE
    COULD EASILY
    LEAD
    TO
    “DOWNFALLS” .

    Reply
  21. BAGHLANI says:
    December 18, 2018 at 11:44 pm

    *IT
    IS
    ANOTHER HOPELESS
    CASE- DOWN
    THE LINE !

    Reply
  22. BAGHLANI says:
    December 19, 2018 at 5:17 pm

    *IF IT
    IS
    NOT
    HANDLED
    PROPERLY !

    Reply
  23. BAGHLANI says:
    December 19, 2018 at 5:47 pm

    *GOOD LUCK !

    Reply

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