Afghanistan: Oslo summit participants agree on need for dialogue

Mohammad Amin Karim, who attended this week’s Oslo Forum in Norway, said Thursday that the consensus among participants at the summit was the need to prevent violence and the isolation of Afghanistan and to try to solve the existing problems through interaction and dialogue.

Almost all representatives, from countries including the US, Russia, China, Pakistan and India, was that violence in Afghanistan is not the solution. They also said Afghanistan should not be isolated, but that through interaction, the changes that the Afghan nation and the international community want, should be respected, said Karim.

Karim added that human rights issues, especially women’s rights, establishment of an inclusive government and freedom of the press were among the issues that were discussed in this meeting and in meetings on the sidelines of the summit with the delegation from the Islamic Emirate.

A number of experts believe the Oslo meeting shows that the countries of the world, especially the US, are seeking to resolve Afghanistan’s problems in a peaceful atmosphere by any possible means.

A delegation from the Islamic Emirate, including Abdul Qahar Balkhi, the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was also present at the Oslo meeting, but so far, the caretaker government has not yet commented about the meeting.