Afghan talks with Taliban to be held 6-7 July in Qatar: official

Umer Daudzai, who is also the head of secretariat of High Peace Council, said that Germany is facilitating the meeting.

The dialogue will be held after the seventh round of US-Taliban talks in Doha, which have focused on Taliban assurances of preventing Afghanistan from being used by terrorist groups and foreign troop withdrawal.
Taliban have attended two meetings with Afghan political figures, but they have so far refused formal talks with the Afghan government.
Germany’s special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Markus Potzel, has met both with Afghan government and Taliban representatives recently.
“The current chance for a process towards a more peaceful Afghanistan should not be missed. If the friends of Afghanistan – and Germany is one of them – together can help in this effort, then we should do it,” Potzel has said last month.
“In the end only the Afghans themselves, including the Taliban, can decide upon the future of their country,” he said.
Another German official has said that US-Taliban talks will gain momentum only if the Taliban start engaging with the Afghan representatives