Mir Rahman Rahmani, Speaker of the Afghan parliament (Wolesi Jirga), in House’s plenary session on Monday also urged the countries in the region and the United Nations to encourage the Taliban to participate in the summit.
The summit has lifted hopes for end of long-decades war in Afghanistan, he said.
The U.S.-sponsored Afghan peace conference that was set to take place on April 16 in Istanbul, Turkey, and last for ten days, has been postponed for April 24.
The decision came a day after the Taliban announced it backed out of participating in the summit.
The new time set for the summit is running out on a May 1 deadline for the foreign troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in accordance with a deal the Trump administration signed with the Taliban more than a year ago.
A year ago, Donald Trump, U.S. President Biden’s predecessor signed an agreement with the Taliban that called for a U.S. troop withdrawal by May 1, 2021.
President Joe Biden last week announced American forces would begin leaving the long-decades war-torn country on May 1 and finish it on September 11, 2021.
The Taliban, reacting to Biden’s decision on troop withdrawal, called for an “immediate” withdrawal of all foreign troops, blaming Washington for violating the February troop withdrawal agreement.
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