{"id":91093,"date":"2019-07-12T07:27:45","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T07:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/khalilzad-u-s-is-not-cutting-and-running\/"},"modified":"2020-12-19T13:14:03","modified_gmt":"2020-12-19T13:14:03","slug":"khalilzad-u-s-is-not-cutting-and-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/khalilzad-u-s-is-not-cutting-and-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalilzad: U.S. is not &#8220;cutting and running&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2019\/july\/12\/\u0646\u06cc\u0631\u0648\u0647\u0627\u06cc \u062e\u0627\u0631\u062c\u06cc.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>MONITOIRNG (SW) &ndash; The U.S. peace envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, says the United States is not &quot;cutting and running&quot; from the war-torn country as it negotiates a peace agreement with the Taliban.<\/p>\n<p>Khalilzad&#39;s prerecorded video statement, shown at a conference held at Georgetown University in Washington on July 11, came two days after the Taliban and a delegation representing Afghan society agreed at talks in Qatar on a road map for a future political settlement in what was seen as a major step toward ending Afghanistan&#39;s nearly 18-year war, the RFE\/ RL reported.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We would like to leave a very positive legacy here,&quot; Khalilzad said. &quot;We are not cutting and running. We&#39;re not looking for a withdrawal agreement. We&#39;re looking for a peace agreement. And we&#39;re looking for a long-term relationship and partnership with Afghanistan.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Khalilzad, left Doha for Beijing on Tuesday en-route to Washington amid extensive talks with the Taliban.<br \/>\nKhalilzad is spearheading the Trump administration&rsquo;s push for a truce and eventual withdrawal of troops from the war-ravaged country. &ldquo;I had a meeting with the Taliban this morning. Headed to China now and then will return to Washington to report and consult on the #AfghanPeaceProcess&rdquo;, he tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITOIRNG (SW) \u2013 The U.S. peace envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, says the United States is not &#8220;cutting and running&#8221; from the war-torn country as it negotiates a peace agreement with the Taliban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-91093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}