Negotiations between representatives of the United States and the radical Afghan “Taliban” group have been suspended. Suhail Shaheen, the Political Representative of the “Taliban” wrote in his microblog on Twitter, the parties cannot reach an agreement on the withdrawal of foreign military contingent from Afghanistan.
It is noted that the United States, in exchange for the withdrawal of troops from the republic, is demanding that the “Taliban” (banned in the Russian Federation) introduce security guarantees, cease-fire and start an intra-Afghan dialogue with official Kabul.
The Taliban, in turn, declare that they do not intend to fulfill the conditions of the United States until they present an exact timetable for leaving Afghanistan.
It is known that, the day before, the President Ashraf Ghani called on the Taliban to cease fire on the first day of Ramadan, but they have refused.
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