U.S. Envoy Khalilzad Heads to Qatar to ‘Promote’ Prompt Start of Intra-Afghan Talks

“He will be traveling in the region to advance ongoing U.S. efforts to promote the immediate start of intra-Afghan negotiations (IAN),” said the Department of State on a statement Saturday.
“The Afghan people are ready for a sustainable reduction in violence and a political settlement that will end the war,” the statement read. “Afghan leaders must seize this historic opportunity for peace.”
Depicting on Afghan-Taliban prisoners swap, the US exclaimed “all sides have taken important steps to remove obstacles for the start of IAN.  Now is the time to start.”
This came at a time the Afghan government and the Taliban representative geared up for a face-to-face negotiation that will determine the future of the Afghanistan, with a notion on achievements of the past two decades to be reserved.