Negotiators from the Afghan government and the Taliban met yesterday, October 20, to once again work on contested issues ahead of the peace negotiations, said a top negotiator of the government, Nader Nadery.
“Today evening, members of the contact group of IRoA Peace negotiation team met with the other side and discussed the disputed issues,” Mr. Nadery took to Twitter. “Both sides agrees to continue the discussion,” he continued.
A spokesman for the Taliban’s political office, Mohammad Naeem Wardak, also said in a tweet that three negotiators from each sides met, working out to agree to disputed rules and procedures, which has yet to be finalized.
It was reiterated during the meeting that “a final understanding about the procedures to be reached as soon as possible,” the Taliban spokesman quoted.
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.
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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