Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai’s reservations on US-Taliban talks
Monday, April 20, 2009 at 7:27 am
WASHINGTON: Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai while expressing his reservations on reports of the direct talks between the United States with Taliban said the U.S. efforts to tame the growing Taliban insurgency through negotiations would fail unless his government agreed to such talks.
In an interview with an American television on Sunday, the Afghan president said “if you want to accomplish a local deal with a certain Taliban commander at a tactical level, good enoughâ.
“But even that has to be done in agreement with the Afghan administration (government) at the local, provincial level. Without that knowledge in the Afghan administration, this peace process will not go anywhere.”
The Obama administration has announced it will send more troops and economic assistance to Afghanistan as well as intensify diplomacy within the region in a bid to counter the Taliban, who now control large parts of the Asian nation.
Karzai objected to the strategy of having U.S. military commanders in Afghanistan conduct direct talks with Taliban members in order to persuade them to abandon their struggle and join local militias.
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