Ambassador Alice Wells on the Role of the Taliban in Afghan Peace
Channel: United States Institute of Peace
Date: 2018-03-09

The senior U.S. diplomat for South and Central Asia, Ambassador Alice Wells, urged Afghanistan’s Taliban to carefully consider last week’s offer by President Ashraf Ghani to hold direct peace negotiations. “It is a positive sign” that the Taliban have not rejected Ghani’s proposal, Wells said—and a planned regional conference in Tashkent this month should rally international support for Ghani’s offer of a political settlement with the insurgency.

In this excerpt from her speech, Ambassador Wells says that the new proposal for peace talks by President Ghani deserves serious consideration by the Taliban.

For more information about this event, visit: https://www.usip.org/publications/2018/03/us-presses-taliban-accept-afghan-peace-talks 

Ambassador Wells discusses her hope for the Taliban to engage with Afghan government on peace.

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