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Khalilzad briefs US Congress of US-Taliban talks
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IANS | 20 Sep, 2019
Zalmay Khalilzad, Washington's Special Representative for Afghanistan
Reconciliation, briefed members of the Congress about the US-Taliban
negotiations, and the circumstances that led to the scuttling of the
deal by American President Donald Trump.
The US chief negotiator
held nine rounds of talks with the Taliban in Doha and the United Arab
Emirates (UAE) in a year in which he finalized a deal "in principle" but
the negotiations with the group were "dead" after Trump announced its
cancellation, reports TOLO News.
"We've learned that the
President up-ended the deal and we have learned that the peace deal
evidently is dead," Representative Eliot Engel, the Chairman of the
House Foreign Affairs Committee said on Thursday.
On Thursday,
Alice Wells, Acting Assistant Secretary of State, told the Foreign
Affairs Committee that the US remains committed to the long-term
stability of Afghanistan despite cuts in aid.
"We want to be
able to signal … that we are committed to the long-term development of
Afghanistan but not over-committed to the point where we are assuming
unreasonable or even a counterproductive level of involvement," Wells
said.
This comes as the US announced it WAS withdrawing about
$100 million earmarked for an Afghan energy project and would withhold
another $60 million in planned assistance.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cited corruption and Afghanistan's "inability to transparently manage US government resources".
Pompeo
said in a statement that the US would complete the energy
infrastructure project but would do so through another mechanism that
does not involve giving the money directly to Afghan authorities.
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