U.S. peace talks with Taliban to resume
By Karen DeYoung,
WashPost
Published: January 11
The Obama administration will resume peace talks with the Taliban as soon as Afghan President Hamid Karzai formally blesses the negotiations, according to senior administration officials who indicated the process could be under way within weeks.
Marc Grossman, the senior U.S. diplomat who shepherded a series of secret U.S. meetings with the insurgents last year, will meet with Karzai late next week to ensure that the Afghan president is on board, officials said.
“If Karzai were to tell [the administration] to go ahead, then we’d start talking again,” said one of two officials who discussed the secret negotiations on condition of anonymity.
A tentative U.S.-Taliban deal, including the transfer of five Afghan detainees from Guantanamo prison to Qatar and an insurgent renunciation of international terrorism, collapsed in December when Karzai refused to go along with it.
(More here.)
WashPost
Published: January 11
The Obama administration will resume peace talks with the Taliban as soon as Afghan President Hamid Karzai formally blesses the negotiations, according to senior administration officials who indicated the process could be under way within weeks.
Marc Grossman, the senior U.S. diplomat who shepherded a series of secret U.S. meetings with the insurgents last year, will meet with Karzai late next week to ensure that the Afghan president is on board, officials said.
“If Karzai were to tell [the administration] to go ahead, then we’d start talking again,” said one of two officials who discussed the secret negotiations on condition of anonymity.
A tentative U.S.-Taliban deal, including the transfer of five Afghan detainees from Guantanamo prison to Qatar and an insurgent renunciation of international terrorism, collapsed in December when Karzai refused to go along with it.
(More here.)
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