KABUL (SW) – The U.S. and Taliban have concluded the ninth round of peace talks in Doha.
'We are at the threshold of an agreement (with the Taliban)', Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation, said early Sunday morning as he left Doha for Kabul.
'We are at the threshold of an agreement that will reduce violence and open the door for Afghans to sit together to negotiate an honorable & sustainable peace and a unified, sovereign Afghanistan that does not threaten the United States, its allies, or any other country', he tweeted.
Khalilzad would meet and brief Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on the developments.
The Taliban’s Qatar office spokesman, Suhail Shaheen, said in a tweet that the ninth round of talks concluded, but debate over technical details would resume today.
This round of talks began in the Qatari capital ten days ago.
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