April 25 (The Killid Group) — NATO in a statement urged the Afghan political leaders to seize the opportunity to end the long-running war in the country and called on the two factions to break the political impasse stemmed from the last year’s presidential elections.
In a statement, NATO has urged President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and his political rival Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, who proclaimed himself as winner of the September’s elections, to urgently resolve their differences and seize the opportunity for peace.
“We call urgently upon Afghanistan’s political leaders and their supporters to come together to resolve their differences and form an inclusive government,” the statement read.
“Afghanistan’s political actors must seize this opportunity for peace,” it continued.
As the Taliban have been ramping up the level of their assaults, NATO alliance called it “not acceptable”, urging the armed group to reduce violence as an effort to start the intra-Afghan negotiations.
“The current level of violence caused by the Taliban is not acceptable,” the North Atlantic Council, a principal political decision-making body of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) said in a statement.
“We call urgently on the Taliban to reduce violence and create the conditions conducive to commence negotiations,” the statement further read.
The NATO’s statement comes as Afghan political rivals still remain locked in a feud resulted from the last year’s presidential elections.
In February, Ghani was declared the winner of the September’s election, but Abdullah disputed the results, claiming widespread fraud.
Both men now claim the right to lead Afghanistan and even held separate, simultaneous inaugurations in Kabul on March 9.
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