“U.S. in direct talks with Taliban”
Prominent weekly The New Yorker says U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has entered into "direct, secret talks with senior Afghan Taliban leaders."
Sunday, 20.02.2011.
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Prominent weekly The New Yorker says U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has entered into "direct, secret talks with senior Afghan Taliban leaders." Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll described the continuing talks as of "an exploratory nature" that do not yet amount to a "peace negotiation." “U.S. in direct talks with Taliban” Coll says several people briefed about the talks told him about them last week. The New Yorker article says the talks are the "final diplomatic achievement" of the late Richard Holbrooke, the special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. The story says Holbrooke, who died suddenly in December, lived long enough to see his advice to talk to the Taliban accepted. Earlier Friday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the Taliban could not defeat or outlast U.S. military pressure and needed to break with al-Qaida and reconcile with the Afghan government. In a speech at the Asia Society in New York, Clinton said the Taliban faced being labeled "an enemy of the international community" if it refused to break with al-Qaida. Clinton also announced veteran senior diplomat Marc Grossman was coming out of retirement to become the new U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, replacing Holbrooke. Grossman retired in 2005 as undersecretary of state for political affairs - traditionally the highest post for a career foreign service officer. (Beta, file)
“U.S. in direct talks with Taliban”
Coll says several people briefed about the talks told him about them last week.The New Yorker article says the talks are the "final diplomatic achievement" of the late Richard Holbrooke, the special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. The story says Holbrooke, who died suddenly in December, lived long enough to see his advice to talk to the Taliban accepted.
Earlier Friday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the Taliban could not defeat or outlast U.S. military pressure and needed to break with al-Qaida and reconcile with the Afghan government.
In a speech at the Asia Society in New York, Clinton said the Taliban faced being labeled "an enemy of the international community" if it refused to break with al-Qaida.
Clinton also announced veteran senior diplomat Marc Grossman was coming out of retirement to become the new U.S. special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, replacing Holbrooke.
Grossman retired in 2005 as undersecretary of state for political affairs - traditionally the highest post for a career foreign service officer.
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