Negotiators from the Afghan government and the Taliban met yesterday, October 12, to work out the disputed issues, said a top negotiator of the government, Nader Nadery on Twitter.
“The contact groups of IRoA & other side held a meeting today evening” Mr. Nadery tweeted yesterday. “Detailed discussions took place on the contested issues and both sides agreed to continue meeting as to reach a resolution,” he added.
A spokesman for the Taliban’s political office, Mohammad Naeem Wardak, also said in a tweet that contact groups of the Afghan government and the Taliban met yesterday, putting efforts to agree to disputed issues.
Afghan and Taliban negotiators have been meeting in Doha since Sept. 12 and are still working out on procedures and related issues for the intra-Afghan talks aimed at ending Afghanistan’s longest war.
The agenda of peace negotiations on issues to be covered and how to be negotiated will be discussed and agreed to after both sides come to an agreement on the rules and procedures as well as to what the government official called “contested issues”.
The long-awaited intra-Afghan talks aimed at ending nearly two decades of war in Afghanistan. They were first scheduled to begin on March 10, but were repeatedly delayed due to the disagreements over the controversial prisoner swap process.
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