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Afghan peace talks with Taliban begin in Doha with rocky path ahead
Nineteen years after 9/11, securing a ceasefire and safeguarding rights of women and minorities are key challenges
Reuters
Sat 12 Sep 2020 02.56 EDT First published on Fri 11 Sep 2020 21.41 EDT
Talks between the Afghan government and Taliban insurgents started in Qatar’s capital of Doha on Saturday with the goal of bringing an end to a conflict that has laid waste to the country and killed tens of thousands of combatants and civilians.
The head of Afghanistan’s peace council, Abdullah Abdullah, said that if the Afghan government and Taliban insurgents came together, they could finally strike a peace deal to end decades of conflict.
“I believe that if we give hands to each other and honestly work for peace, the current ongoing misery in the country will end,” he told the opening ceremony of the talks at a hotel in Doha.
The talks are aimed at ending 19 years of war in Afghanistan. It is the US’s longest overseas military action, vexing three successive US presidents.
The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said the starting of the talks was a momentous occasion and that an enduring peace was possible. But the talks would require enormous hard work and sacrifice to succeed, he said.
Pompeo told both parties that the choice of Afghanistan’s political system was theirs to make.
Earlier, officials, diplomats and analysts said that although getting both sides to the negotiating table was an achievement in itself, it did not mean the path to peace would be easy.
“The negotiations will have to tackle a range of profound questions about the kind of country Afghans want,” Deborah Lyons, the UN special representative for Afghanistan, told the UN security council this month.
The inauguration ceremony on Saturday was taking place a day after the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the US that triggered its military involvement in Afghanistan.
US forces intervened in Afghanistan on the orders of president George W Bush a month after the attacks to hunt down their mastermind, Osama bin Laden, a Saudi who had been given sanctuary by the country’s radical Islamist Taliban rulers. They initially offered mainly air support to the Taliban’s local enemies.
The Taliban regime was quickly toppled, but they regrouped and have since waged an insurgency that has sucked in Afghanistan’s neighbours and troops from dozens of countries, including Nato forces.
Negotiations to broker a comprehensive peace deal were envisaged in a troop withdrawal pact signed between the US and the Taliban in February in an attempt to find a political settlement to end the war.
After months of delay, a dispute over the Taliban’s demand for the release of 5,000 prisoners was resolved this week.
Ahead of the US presidential election in November, president Donald Trump is also looking to show progress in his pledge to end the US involvement and pull out most of the foreign forces stationed in Afghanistan.
The US has reduced its troop levels and by November is expected to have less than 5,000 soldiers in Afghanistan, down from about 13,000 when the US-Taliban deal was signed. More than 2,300 US troops have been killed in Afghanistan since 2001, and about 450 British soldiers.
A European diplomat in Kabul said that a ceasefire – which the Taliban have so far rejected – should top the talk’s agenda.
“The Taliban leaders will have to stop fighters from attacking Afghan forces and civilians, violence continues to degrade the atmosphere and potentially derail negotiations,” the diplomat said.
How to include the Taliban, who reject the legitimacy of the Western-backed Afghan government, in any governing arrangement and how to safeguard the rights of women and minorities who suffered under Taliban rule are big challenges, experts said.
But many diplomats, victims of violence and members of civil society say negotiations are the only realistic way to bring an end to a conflict that has killed more than 100,000 civilians and hampered Afghanistan’s development, leaving millions in poverty.
“Solutions will not be found on the battlefield, we know this,” Lyons said.
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Afghan peace talks with Taliban begin in Doha with rocky path ahead
Securing a ceasefire and safeguarding rights of women and minorities are key challenges
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Afghan peace talks with Taliban begin in Doha with rocky path ahead
Nineteen years after 9/11, securing a ceasefire and safeguarding rights of women and minorities are key challenges
Reuters
Sat 12 Sep 2020 02.56 EDT First published on Fri 11 Sep 2020 21.41 EDT
Talks between the Afghan government and Taliban insurgents started in Qatar’s capital of Doha on Saturday with the goal of bringing an end to a conflict that has laid waste to the country and killed tens of thousands of combatants and civilians.
The head of Afghanistan’s peace council, Abdullah Abdullah, said that if the Afghan government and Taliban insurgents came together, they could finally strike a peace deal to end decades of conflict.
“I believe that if we give hands to each other and honestly work for peace, the current ongoing misery in the country will end,” he told the opening ceremony of the talks at a hotel in Doha.
The talks are aimed at ending 19 years of war in Afghanistan. It is the US’s longest overseas military action, vexing three successive US presidents.
The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said the starting of the talks was a momentous occasion and that an enduring peace was possible. But the talks would require enormous hard work and sacrifice to succeed, he said.
Pompeo told both parties that the choice of Afghanistan’s political system was theirs to make.
Earlier, officials, diplomats and analysts said that although getting both sides to the negotiating table was an achievement in itself, it did not mean the path to peace would be easy.
“The negotiations will have to tackle a range of profound questions about the kind of country Afghans want,” Deborah Lyons, the UN special representative for Afghanistan, told the UN security council this month.
The inauguration ceremony on Saturday was taking place a day after the 19th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the US that triggered its military involvement in Afghanistan.
US forces intervened in Afghanistan on the orders of president George W Bush a month after the attacks to hunt down their mastermind, Osama bin Laden, a Saudi who had been given sanctuary by the country’s radical Islamist Taliban rulers. They initially offered mainly air support to the Taliban’s local enemies.
The Taliban regime was quickly toppled, but they regrouped and have since waged an insurgency that has sucked in Afghanistan’s neighbours and troops from dozens of countries, including Nato forces.
Negotiations to broker a comprehensive peace deal were envisaged in a troop withdrawal pact signed between the US and the Taliban in February in an attempt to find a political settlement to end the war.
After months of delay, a dispute over the Taliban’s demand for the release of 5,000 prisoners was resolved this week.
Ahead of the US presidential election in November, president Donald Trump is also looking to show progress in his pledge to end the US involvement and pull out most of the foreign forces stationed in Afghanistan.
The US has reduced its troop levels and by November is expected to have less than 5,000 soldiers in Afghanistan, down from about 13,000 when the US-Taliban deal was signed. More than 2,300 US troops have been killed in Afghanistan since 2001, and about 450 British soldiers.
A European diplomat in Kabul said that a ceasefire – which the Taliban have so far rejected – should top the talk’s agenda.
“The Taliban leaders will have to stop fighters from attacking Afghan forces and civilians, violence continues to degrade the atmosphere and potentially derail negotiations,” the diplomat said.
How to include the Taliban, who reject the legitimacy of the Western-backed Afghan government, in any governing arrangement and how to safeguard the rights of women and minorities who suffered under Taliban rule are big challenges, experts said.
But many diplomats, victims of violence and members of civil society say negotiations are the only realistic way to bring an end to a conflict that has killed more than 100,000 civilians and hampered Afghanistan’s development, leaving millions in poverty.
“Solutions will not be found on the battlefield, we know this,” Lyons said.