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Ghani Offers Taliban to Open Office in Kabul, Kandahar or Nangarhar
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani who visited eastern Nangarhar province on Sunday said that he is ready to give office to the Taliban in Kabul, Nangarhar or Kandahar.
Speaking to the residents of Ghani Khil district of Nangarhar province, Ghani said that the Taliban refused to come for negotiations in Saudi Arabia, but convened in Moscow instead.
He reiterated that the government has an inclusive plan for peace, and is committed to bring enduring and dignified peace.
The President also offered to give space for the Taliban to open an office in Kabul, Kandahar or Nangarhar and assured to provide full security to them.
Ghani reaffirmed his stand on elections and said that the government is committed to carrying the torch of democracy, rebuking any prospects of an interim government under his leadership.
In other parts of his speech, Ghani also thanked Shinwaris and Momands for supporting the Afghan military forces in defeating and clearing eastern Nangarhar from ISIS-K and Taliban.
He met with tribal elders and tribes who led and were part of the local uprisings against ISIS-K and Taliban and drove them out from Achin, Nazian, Ghanikhel and Momandara and many others districts in eastern Nangarhar with support from Afghan National Defense and Security Forces.
“The reason that we were able to clear our lands and drive out the enemy was cohesion. Now people, security and defense forces, and the government are on the same page and united against our enemies,” Ghani said.
This comes as the Taliban has repeatedly refused to sit in face-to-face talks with the Afghan government. But instead, insisting on having talks with the United States and the Afghan government’s oppositions.
Recently, a delegation of the armed group met with Afghan politicians in Moscow and held two-day talks. The delegates attending the talks issued a joint declaration as a move to promote intra-Afghan dialogue to end the nearly two decades of war in Afghanistan.
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US understands importance of Chabahar Port for Afghanistan: India
The United States understands the importance of Chabahar Port for continued humanitarian supplies to Afghanistan and to provide the country economic alternatives, India’s foreign ministry said on Friday.
India recently signed a 10-year agreement to develop and operate Iran’s strategic Chabahar Port as New Delhi aims to boost trade ties with landlocked Afghanistan and Central Asian countries, bypassing ports in its western neighbour and arch foe Pakistan.
But the deal has prompted a thinly veiled threat of sanctions from the United States, with whom India has developed close economic and military ties in recent decades.
India’s foreign ministry spokesman, Randhir Jaiswal, noted that since 2018, India has supplied 85,000 metric tons of wheat, 200 metric tons of pulses and 40,000 litres of pesticide Malathion to Afghanistan through Chabahar Port.
“The United States also has an understanding…understands the importance of Chabahar Port for continued humanitarian supplies to Afghanistan and to provide Afghanistan economic alternatives,” he said in a press conference.
“Our External Affairs Minister also spoke on this matter in several forums recently, where he said that we should not take a narrow view of this particular project, it has an important role to play as far as the region is concerned, connectivity is concerned, particularly for the landlocked countries in the area,” he added.
He also said that Russia‘s special envoy to Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, met with an Indian delegation led by Joint Secretary, J.P. Singh, who looks after Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, in the Ministry of External Affairs, essentially exchange of views on the ground and the situation and how the two countries look at the situation.
He said that they emphasized on the need to provide development assistance and humanitarian support to the people of Afghanistan.
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Nicaragua president sends letter of condolence to IEA leader after floods
The Afghan Embassy in China announced Saturday that the President of Nicaragua has sent a letter of condolence to the leader of the Islamic Emirate, Mawlawi Hebatullah Akhundzada, following the recent deadly floods in Afghanistan.
Based on the embassy’s statement, the letter was handed over by Michael Campbell, the Nicaraguan ambassador to China, to Bilal Karimi, the Afghan ambassador to China.
In the letter, Nicaragua president, Daniel Ortega, while expressing his sympathy over the floods, expressed his interest in establishing good relations with the Islamic Emirate and cooperation in various fields.
The Nicaraguan ambassador stated that the Nicaraguan people, like the Afghans, achieved independence after a hard struggle against the colonialists, which is a common point between the two countries.
Meanwhile, Bilal Karimi, Afghanistan’s ambassador to China, has said that he will convey the condolence letter of the President of Nicaragua to the leader of the Islamic Emirate. He also assured of maintaining good relations with the country.
Karimi emphasized that all Latin American countries are important, but Nicaragua’s taking the initiative is a positive and admirable move.
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UN Doha meeting should reflect realities of Afghanistan: Iranian envoy
Iran’s special representative for Afghanistan, Hassan Kazemi Qomi, said in a meeting with his Italian counterpart that the next UN-convened meeting on Afghanistan should reflect the realities of the country.
Qomi said that Tehran is ready to work with Europe on the development of a comprehensive cooperation plan for Afghanistan based on the consultations it has conducted.
He added that the topics of the third meeting of special envoys on Afghanistan in Doha should be based on the realities of the region and Afghanistan.
“The actions of countries outside the region have not been useful in solving the crisis and challenges of Afghanistan so far, and if this situation continues, Europe will also be plagued by the problems,” he said.
The last meeting of the United Nations on Afghanistan was held in Doha in February this year, but it failed to achieve its primary objectives.
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