Delegations from across the region and around the world will gather in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, to discuss peace in Afghanistan from March 25-27.
Co-hosted by the Afghan government, the conference follows countless other efforts to breathe life into the peace process in Afghanistan.
The official conference is set to kick off on March 26. Though on March 25, foreign ministers from five Central Asian states will meet with Afghan officials, a variation on the C5+1 concept.
The conference will be attended by the Central Asian foreign ministers and diplomatic representatives from the United Nations, United States, Russia, China, the European Union, Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
Afghanistan’s High Peace Council (HPC) has remains hopeful about a positive result of the conference.
In the conference, the Afghan delegate will share its views on how to remove obstacles from the way of peace process, HPC spokesman Sayed Ehsan Taheri told media on Saturday.
“Afghanistan’s peace is included in the agenda of the Tashkent conference besides other issues including counterterrorism, drugs and human smuggling,” Taheri said.
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