The Biden administration is having a tough have a look at the extent to which the Taliban are complying with the circumstances of the peace settlement and helps the negotiations between the stakeholders to discover a sturdy political settlement to the long-standing battle in Afghanistan, a high US official has stated.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan stated on Friday the Biden administration helps the earlier Trump administration’s choice of organising negotiations between the stakeholders in Afghanistan.
The Trump administration signed the peace cope with Taliban in February final 12 months in Doha. The accord drew up plans for withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in alternate for safety ensures from the rebel group. As a part of the deal, the US dedicated to withdraw its 12,000 troops inside 14 months. There are at the moment solely 2,500 American troops left within the nation.
The Taliban dedicated to forestall different teams, together with al Qaeda, from utilizing Afghan soil to recruit, practice or fund increase towards actions that threaten the US or its allies.
“In that context, we will make decisions about our force posture and our diplomatic strategy going forward,” Sullivan stated.
“What the previous administration did in terms of setting up and supporting negotiations between the stakeholders in Afghanistan toward a just, durable political settlement to that conflict, that basic frame is something that we very much support,” he stated at an occasion organised by the US Institute of Peace, a Congress-funded think-tank.
“We want to support negotiations between the Afghan government and the Taliban and others to get to that just and sustainable outcome in addition to looking at the US-Taliban agreement and what it means for our forces going forward,” Sullivan stated.
Although the Taliban stopped assaults on worldwide forces as a part of the historic deal, it continued to combat the Afghan authorities. As a situation of beginning talks with the Afghan authorities, the Taliban demanded that hundreds of their members be launched in a prisoner swap.
Direct talks between the Afghan authorities and the Taliban started in Doha in September final 12 months, however a breakthrough is but to be reached.
Levels of violence in Afghanistan stay excessive with journalists, activists, politicians and girls judges amongst these killed in focused assassinations.
