(MENAFN- Daily Outlook Afghanistan) Pompeo says that the United States remains committed to the Afghan peaceprocess.
WASHINGTON - The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday said thatAfghans deserve an end to the ongoing violence and that the 'hour has come forpeace in Afghanistan.
He said in a tweet on Wednesday that the US remains committed to the Afghanpeace process and to helping those who seek a peaceful future.
His remarks come amid the ongoing backdoor talks between the US and theTaliban in Doha, Qatar, which entered their fifth day on Thursday.
Meanwhile the US ambassador to Kabul John Bass has said that the firstintra-Afghan talks which are scheduled to take place in three days in Qatar iscritical to leverage the peace process in the country. He said that peace isamong the top priorities of the Afghan and US governments.
This comes as Afghan officials and politicians are preparing to attend thescheduled intra-Afghan dialogue in Qatar in the next three days.
'This conflict will only end when Afghans, all Afghans, sit together andwork through the differences that have fueled the conflict, that driven theconflict for so many years. From our perspective that means an intra-Afghandialogue that includes everyone with society and also formal intra-Afghannegotiations, the US Ambassador to Kabul John Bass said.
This comes after Germany's Special Representative for Afghanistan andPakistan, Markus Potzel, said in a statement on Tuesday that as part of theirefforts to support the peace process in Afghanistan, Germany and Qatar willconvene an Intra-Afghan Dialogue Conference to be held in Doha on 7 and 8 July2019. (Tolo news)
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