(TKG) ─ According to media reports, Alice Wells – Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian – said during a briefing at the U.S. Department of State in her recent trip to Pakistan and other South Asian countries, that Afghan people need a tangible reduction of violence.
Alice Wells – Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian – said that Afghan people need reduction of violence that they can see, feel and appreciate.
Amb Wells, pointing at President Trump’s remarks, said that talks won’t proceed if the Taliban would not agree on reduction of violence; that’s why a reduction in violence is being sought from the Afghan Taliban, a reduction, “that the Afghan people can see and feel and appreciate.”
Wells further said that Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and his team are in Doha, “encouraging the Taliban to make a commitment to a reduction in violence that would allow Afghans to sit at a negotiation table. And so that process continues.”
She also talked about the role of Pakistan in Afghanistan peace process as saying,“We appreciate the steps Pakistan has taken to advance the Afghan peace process and Pakistan has important leverage to promote lasting security and stability in Afghanistan.”
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