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Afghanistan: Biden keeps Trump appointed negotiator

2021-01-28T00:19:43.325Z


The US envoy for Afghanistan appointed by Donald Trump, Zalmay Khalilzad, will remain in office under Joe Biden's administration, although he reaffirmed on Wednesday January 27 his intention to review the historic agreement he has concluded almost a year ago with the Taliban. "We have asked him to continue the crucial work he has started," new US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced at a pr


The US envoy for Afghanistan appointed by Donald Trump, Zalmay Khalilzad, will remain in office under Joe Biden's administration, although he reaffirmed on Wednesday January 27 his intention to review the historic agreement he has concluded almost a year ago with the Taliban.

"We have asked him to continue the crucial work he has started,"

new US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced at a press conference.

Read also: In Afghanistan, the Taliban are negotiating their return to power

Zalmay Khalilzad, born in Afghanistan, served as US Ambassador to the UN, Iraq and Afghanistan, under the presidency of Republican George W. Bush.

This seasoned diplomat was recalled by Donald Trump to help him keep a campaign promise: to end the United States' longest war.

Nineteen years after the start of the American intervention in Afghanistan following the attacks of September 11, 2001, Zalmay Khalilzad had reached, after several months of negotiations, an agreement with the Taliban signed in Qatar on February 29. .

Its work is generally praised by diplomats and specialists in this conflict.

According to this agreement, the insurgents pledge to no longer allow

“terrorist”

organizations

like Al-Qaeda to operate from the territories they control, and to negotiate directly for the first time with the government of Kabul in the hope to achieve peace.

In return, the US military must withdraw completely from the country by mid-2021.

Until the end of Donald Trump's mandate, the United States continued to withdraw at a forced march, even as the inter-Afghan negotiations stall and violence still reigns on the ground.

Read also: In Afghanistan, the outskirts of the capital infested by the Taliban

Antony Blinken recalled that several parts of the deal with the Taliban had not been made public.

"We need to understand what exactly is in the agreements that have been made between the United States and the Taliban, to have a full understanding of the commitments made by the Taliban as well as the commitments we have made,"

a- he said on Wednesday.

Like Donald Trump, Joe Biden favors an end to this war and the departure of American soldiers, but he has repeatedly said that he wants to maintain a small counterterrorism force - which risks being seen as a rupture of the agreement by the Taliban.

Source: lefigaro

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