Afghanistan’s Karzai heads to Qatar to discuss peace with Taliban
Worldwide, Daily news | ankakh | March 25, 2013 13:20Afghan President Hamid Karzai will travel to Qatar within days to discuss peace negotiations with the Taliban, the Afghan Foreign Ministry said on Sunday, as efforts intensify to find a negotiated solution to the twelve year war.
Karzai’s Qatar trip was announced by Foreign Ministry spokesman Janan Mosazai.
“President Karzai will discuss the peace process and the opening of a (Taliban) office for the purposes of conducting negotiations with Afghanistan,” he said.
Karzai was expected to travel to Qatar within a week, a senior Afghan official speaking on condition of anonymity told Reuters.
The United States has said it would support setting up an office in the Gulf state where peace talks between the Taliban and Afghanistan could take place.
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