(MENAFN- Daily Outlook Afghanistan) KABUL - Efforts are underwayfor organizing an international meeting about the Afghan peace process in Chinawhere representatives of the US, Europe, Russia, India and neighboring countriesof Afghanistan would participate, a credible source said Sunday.
A well-placed governmentofficial, who wished to go unnamed, told Pajhwok Afghan News that work the planwas underway but details in this regard were yet to be specified.
Another source also confirmedthe report about organizing an international event about the Afghan peaceprocess in China over the next few weeks.
Zabihullah Farhang, a lecturerof international relations, told Pajhwok Afghan News that hopes for peace wouldincrease if representatives of the Afghan government also participated in theproposed conference.
The US and the Afghangovernments wanted ceasefire and Europe and India supported this idea, he said.
Russia was trying to introduceTaliban as a group under its own control, ignoring the movement's past, hesaid. 'In this situation, China holds on to an obscure foreign policy as on theone hand it calls foreign forces' withdrawal from Afghanistan a threat toregional security and on the other it does not reveal its position aboutTaliban, he said.
'So this meeting would open upa heterogeneous environment for two different ideas and no ceasefire would beagreed upon nor foreign forces would specify a withdrawal date, Farhang said.
Reports about a big meeting inChina comes as the seventh round of peace talks between the US and the Talibanare expected to take place next Saturday.
A day earlier, Afghanpoliticians including Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Atta Mohammad Noor, Mohammad KarimKhalili, Anwarul Haq Ahadi, Hamid Gilani, Mohammad Mohaqiq, Abdul Latif Pedram,Mohammad Hanif Atmar, Ahmad Wali Massoud and some others attended a conferenceabout the Afghan peace process in Pakistan's Lahore city.
The meeting continues today butthe Taliban, who were also invited, did not attend it. (Pajhwok)
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