New Delhi: Washington is keen on a six-country meet, including India, on Afghanistan even because it evaluations its technique for the country. In a letter to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, the US secretary of state Antony Blinken has outlined a number of methods “to move matter more fundamentally and quickly towards a settlement”.
The letter, which surfaced in Afghan media on Sunday (March 7) mentioned, “We intend to ask the United Nations to convene foreign ministers and envoys from Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran, India, and US to discuss a unified approach to supporting peace in Afghanistan”.
In the letter, Blinken defined, “it is my belief that these countries share an abiding common interest in a stable Afghanistan and must work together if we are to succeed”.
Sunday additionally witnessed talks between US Special Representative to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad and India’s exterior affairs minister Dr S Jaishankar. A tweet from Jaishankar’s account mentioned, “discussed the latest developments pertaining to peace talks”.
India has been seen as an in depth associate of the Afghan authorities and has constructed a variety of mega infrastructure initiatives within the country, from the Afghan Parliament to the India Afghan friendship dam in western Herat province. Last month, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Afghan President Ghani held a digital summit and in addition introduced the beginning of Shahtoot dam challenge, which can be constructed by India and supply clear consuming water to residents of Kabul.
The letter by Blinken additionally features a written proposal that can be shared by Khalilzad with President Ghani and Taliban leaders and is “aimed at accelerating discussions on a negotiated settlement and ceasefire” with the Turkish authorities internet hosting a meet between the 2 sides, discount in violence proposal to “prevent a spring offensive by the Taliban” and eventual full withdrawal of American forces by May 1st.
It has been 20 years for the reason that fall of the Taliban and US presence in Afghanistan with Washington keen to depart the country. Last yr noticed, US-Taliban pact, adopted by the beginning of talks between the Taliban and the Afghan authorities. While these two developments have been seen as optimistic, the violence stage continues to extend within the country.
