Afghan authorities’s spokesperson Faraidoon Khawzoon, said its negotiating group was ready for talks (file)
Kabul:
The Taliban’s negotiating group has arrived in Qatar, a spokesman said Saturday, in a sign that long-delayed peace talks with the Afghan authorities are inching nearer to starting.
A date for the talks, to be hosted in Doha, has not been set nevertheless the warring sides have this week made alerts that negotiations could launch shortly, along with efforts to wrap up a drawn out prisoner alternate.
“All members of our negotiating group have arrived in Doha. The talks will begin as quickly as some small technical factors are resolved,” Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen suggested AFP.
The Taliban group had these days been in Pakistan discussing the peace course of with the federal authorities in Islamabad.
Qatar authorities have been imposing a seven day quarantine interval on all arrivals to the nation, nevertheless have made exemptions for some delegations who endure widespread testing.
The Afghan authorities’s negotiating group remained in Kabul on Saturday, nevertheless a logistics group landed in Doha earlier this week.
Faraidoon Khawzoon, a spokesman for the Afghan authorities’s reconciliation council, said its negotiating group was ready for talks.
“The discharge of the prisoners is achieved and there is no excuse for delaying the talks,” he tweeted.
“Nevertheless the Taliban aren’t ready for the talks. We anticipate the Taliban to organize and start the negotiations.”
The talks had been initially on account of begin in March as set out in a deal between america and the Taliban in February, from which Kabul was excluded.
Nevertheless disagreements over ongoing violence and the prisoner swap have seen the start repeatedly pushed once more.
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