Alice Wells, the senior official for the State Department’s Bureau of South and Central Asia Affairs
Doha … News Time
The Taliban has confirmed that in order to end the 17-year war in Afghanistan this week there have been direct meetings with the United States in Qatar. A senior Taliban official told the Voice of America on Friday Alice Wells for South and Central Asia, the senior official for the State Department of Bureau of South and Central Asia led the American delegation at the Doha meeting. The rebels said the Voice of America on the condition of keeping their name hidden the focus in early religions only focused on smoothening the ground for contacts and meetings between the US and the Taliban in the future. The Taliban office told Voice of America that the atmosphere of negotiations was very good and positive. However, he did not give any further details. The news about this meeting held in Doha, Qatar on Monday, was published in American newspapers this week but US officials did not comment directly on it yet. The US Department of State refused to comment on reports related to the Afghan rebels. When the US Department of Foreign Affairs was questioned about the Taliban with the Taliban So office of the Department of Foreign Affairs said that the United States is reviewing all the aspects with close consultation with the Afghan government to advance the peace process.
The office clarified that the Afghan government is fully involved in the peace talks with Jumpstart’s efforts. And any of the political future of Afghanistan will be between the Taliban and the Afghan government. The Afghan Taliban has been running a non-governmental political office in Dubai for many years. The Islamist Afghan rebel group has long been asking for direct talks with Washington. The Taliban insists that the United States has the option of withdrawing all US and NATO troops from Afghanistan, not the Afghan government. This week Qatar talks, in 2015, after meeting with Taliban and Afghan officials in Pakistan there is an important step towards starting peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan. America and China participated in the talks in Pakistan as an observer. According to the reports, US officials are about to contact the Taliban on Monday the progress made by the three-day unusual temporary ceasefire on the occasion of the eid festival in the past month, the Afghan government and the Taliban, is to step forward. This meeting has been held in Doha on an occasion when the Afghan government is contemplating another militant fire with the Taliban during the Eid-ul-Azha in August. They can be encouraged to bring them to the negotiation table. US Department of State Deputy Assistant Secretary Alice Wales led the US delegation at Doha meeting
