Ashraf Ghani
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
September 24, 2020
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has urged the world to help his country achieve peace amid talks with the Taliban aimed at ending nearly two decades of conflict.
In a prerecorded speech to the UN General Assembly delivered on September 23, Ghani said the Afghan government had demonstrated the “commitment, compassion, and courage” to make hard decisions to hold direct peace talks with the Taliban but said this wouldn’t be enough.
“For sustainable peace in Afghanistan we must get to the roots of the terrorism problem blighting our region and address it as the global phenomenon and threat that it is,” Ghani said.
Afghanistan, he said, faced “multiple drivers of turmoil all at once,” noting that the coronavirus pandemic and climate change were among them.
But the main driver of turmoil is a wave of global terrorism in which terrorist networks are closely linked with global criminal networks, making warfare totally unconventional and peace-building even more of a challenge, he said.
But Ghani said peace remains Afghanistan’s “most urgent and important priority,” and at the talks, which got under way in Doha, Qatar, on September 12, the Afghan people have a “clear and urgent priority” to achieve a cease-fire.
The intra-Afghan talks are part of a process begun in February when the United States and the militants struck an agreement that could see foreign troops exit Afghanistan.
The Afghan government’s lead negotiator, Abdullah Abdullah, said on September 22 that negotiations with the Taliban had been positive, although the two sides reportedly remain far from agreement on virtually every issue.
Abdullah also said that some of the 5,000 Taliban prisoners released by the Afghan authorities as a condition for talks had resumed the fight against the government, and said that despite the negotiations, the level of violence inside Afghanistan had not fallen.
He called on Washington and Pakistan, which allegedly maintains ties to the militants, to pressure them to agree to a cease-fire.
In his UN speech, which was delivered to a largely virtual General Assembly because of the coronavirus pandemic, Ghani called on the members of the assembly to help the country achieve a “sovereign, united, and democratic Afghanistan.”
The Afghan president said that outcome would be an example of how the principles on which the UN was founded can work and would show “how our collective will can overcome the turmoil and uncertainty that defines our world today.”
With reporting by AP
Copyright (c) 2020. 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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*Yes;
support t
he
*Albino invader’s
*drunk Indians*
and
the nasty
“stupid stooges”
who are
roaming and hanging out
in and around
all of the
killing Fields
of
Afghanistan- how can any civilized
human being
could possibly
justify and accept that ?????
*
TO
THE
“WORLD COMMUNITY”
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.
Flush them
all
out !!!!!
*
THE MAIN
REASON:
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THEIR COWARD CRIMES
AGAINST
THE
HUMANITY !!!!!
*
*GET OUT
OF
AFGHANISTAN- ALL OF YOU !!!!!
*
The great people
of
Afghanistan
does
not
deserve that !
.*
*AN
IMPARTIAL
INTERNATIONAL PEACE CONFERENCE,
((ON
AFGHANISTAN)),
IS
THE
ONLY
LOGICAL
ROUTE !!!!!
*
This man
is
semi-retarded !
*
Talking about
the
megalomaniacs
And
their
stooges !
*
I don’t
understand why the president
of
Uzbekistan
is
bluffing,
((to the UN)),
about its
economic involvement
in
Afghanistan- they really never
had done
nothing
much meaningful at all
to
help Afghanistan out of the aggressive designs
of
the crazy savage invaders, in comparison
to
what the great people of Afghanistan had done in helping them
to
achieve
integrity and independence
for
whole of Central Asia..
.
Afghanistan, certainly, helped
all of those
Central Asian countries to attain their independence
from the Soviet Union; but, instead
of
thanking
the
people of Afghanistan; they
promptly turned around
and
facilitated
the
GRAND INVASION
of
the coalition of the
Anglo/US
megalomaniacs inside Afghanistan
in
2001. In fact; all the
central Asian countries helped the invaders in
creatively various ways and facilitated their air forces entry, on coward bombing missions, across
Afghanistan.
..
The idea that I have been proposing, now
for many years,
is
being picked up
by
the president
of
Uzbekistan as
a
proposal
to
the
UN this week- the tightly-controlled
Central Asian ex-communist leaders,
((as helpful neighbors of Afghanistan)),
should have
had
proposed those good ideas
long time ago.
It was my proposal about the formation
of
an unified and impartial international body
to
help facilitate
a
seriously honorable
peace process.
.
Regardless; even then it would be nice,
if the president
of
Uzbekistan could help in backing up
my sincere ideas- at least we expect that simple proposals as a good gesture from
the countries that
owe their
independence
((sovereignty; 1990-92))
and
integrity
to
the
sacrifices
of
the
Great people
of
Afghanistan.
“Honorable
peace”
in
Afghanistan
is
something very special that is directly
((%100 sure))
correlated
to
the
prosperity
of
the
whole south west Asia- it will
bring honor; respect; unity; economic, social and cultural benefits and developments
for
that
whole part of Asia- it is, in fact,
is
desperately needed,
as soon as, possible !
*
Here is Mr Mirziyoyev proposal
to
the
UN; as I had been
advocating for it
for
many years
and
now being picked up
by
the president
of
Uzbekistan as a very specially hopeful sign:
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Uzbek president proposes setting up permanent UN committee on Afghanistan
Source: Xinhua| 2020-09-24 02:41:14|Editor: huaxia
TASHKENT, Sept. 23 (Xinhua) — Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev on Wednesday called on the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) to create a permanent UN committee on Afghanistan to assist the peace process and economic recovery in the country.
President Mirziyoyev delivered his speech by video call at the general debate of the 75th session of the UNGA from Uzbek.
Mirziyoyev outlined the steps his nation has taken to try to promote peace in Afghanistan, starting with a major international forum held in Tashkent in March 2018.
Since then, Uzbekistan has invested heavily in power line, railway and other infrastructures in Afghanistan, the president said.
“We consider Afghanistan as an integral part of Central Asia … We fully support the peace talks among the Afghan political forces launched this year in the city of Doha in September,” the president said in his address.
“We believe that the issues of ensuring peace and stability in Afghanistan must remain a constant focus of the United Nations. Only together and through close cooperation we can realize all the dreams and aspirations of the Afghan people,” he said.
“Therefore, we need to establish at the UN a permanent committee that will listen to the hopes and aspirations of the Afghan people. The main aim of the committee should be to assist the economic and social development in Afghanistan,” the president said. Enditem
That is a great idea- I would support
you, ((%100)), on that !
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==
=
Though; you may
have
to
convince
international
MEGALOMANIACS !
*
*It is
a honorable mission
to
help bring
peace, integrity and respect
to
the whole
region- of coarse; Afghanistan is
an
integral part of that complex
equation
to
be addressed.
*
*IT
IS
THE
SACRED DUTY ALL OF THR
COUNTRIES, IN THE REGION,
TO
HELP ACHIEVE
THAT
HONORABLE MISSION- but; as you
can clearly see that it is
cowardly ignored and even sabotaged
by
the; so called,
“MUSLIM”
neighbor
of
Afghanistan. !
*
The
people
of the region, are
all good- but; the
leaderships are not doing
enough
to
stop
imposed
bloodsheds and savageries,
*