Peace process in Afghanistan: USA wants to delay troop withdrawal, Taliban strictly oppose delaying troop withdrawal of the American troop withdrawal #Peace#terrorism#geopolitics#BreakingNews
Local media reported that the US had proposed a major international Afghanistan conference in which the United Nations would play an important role.
The Taliban strictly oppose postponing the planned withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.
At the beginning of last year, the United States had promised the Taliban a troop withdrawal by May 1, 2021. In return, they committed to peace talks with the government.
Critics accuse the Islamists of failing to keep promises. In view of the persistently high level of violence, the NATO states want to continue their deployment in Afghanistan for the time being.
After weeks of standstill in the inner-Afghan peace talks, negotiators from both sides met again on Monday (February 22nd). At the meeting it was agreed to continue talks on the agenda of the negotiations, both sides announced.
If you've been following my tweets, what happened exactly as I said, which is that the US won't keep its promises.
Now it remains to be seen whether the Taliban will enter into negotiations again, and thus run the risk of being disappointed by the Americans again, or whether one will simply respond with violence.
The German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas proposes to extend the mandate for the Federal Armed Forces in Afghanistan, which expires at the end of March. Because by then, the peace negotiations with the militant Islamist Taliban will not have been concluded, said the SPD politician
The Bundeswehr can deploy up to 1,300 soldiers to participate in the NATO mission “Resolute Support”. The task is to advise, train and support the local security forces.
The one-year deployment, which expires at the end of March, has been estimated by the government to cost 427.5 million euros. Maas said that a partnership approach was possible again with the new American administration.
It was agreed that «as allies we want to bring the mission to an end together, in a responsible manner and in such a way that the peace process is not endangered».
So you just want to carry on as before without thinking about your own mistakes and reflecting on whether you can stop violence through violence.
In 2020, almost 380,000 people in Afghanistan fled fighting and fighting from their villages and towns in 32 of the 34 provinces of the country.
Most of the displaced come from the hard-fought north around the province of Kunduz and from the southern province of Helmand. Almost two thirds of the refugees are children.
In the previous year around 426,000 displaced persons were registered. According to OCHA estimates, around 40 million people live in Afghanistan.
What is in the agreement that the US and the Taliban signed on February 29, 2020?
The “Agreement on Bringing Peace to Afghanistan” contains the US promise to withdraw its approximately 13,000 military personnel in Afghanistan within 14 months, i.e. by the beginning of May 2021.
The remaining non-American NATO troops (around 6,700 men at the end of 2019) are also to be withdrawn.
Why does the USA sign an agreement that the other NATO troops should also be withdrawn, although they cannot even decide for themselves whether completely different countries withdraw their troops?
Perhaps one should make sure that the other NATO countries actually withdraw their troops, but that was not done, as you can see that Germany does not want to withdraw its troops in order not to destroy the "peace process".
The "peace process" is that the NATO countries train security forces, some of whom are extremist themselves, and torture who then engage in street shootings with the terrorists. Bravo!
Instead of building schools, you give "security forces" weapons.
The intra-Afghan talks agreed in the agreement should deal with the future state order, power sharing and the integration of the insurgents into the security forces.
The Taliban, acting from a position of strength, had little reason to push for dialogue to begin. Your opponents in Kabul, on the other hand, are at odds.
A few days before the agreement was signed, a political crisis broke out. It was not until May 2020 that President Ashraf Ghani and the previous government executive, Abdullah Abdullah, agreed to redistribute power.
Ghani remains president, but Abdullah is to lead the peace talks.
The Afghan government was excluded from the US-Taliban negotiations and has much, if not everything, to lose.
It is conceivable that President Ashraf Ghani, who is a political survivor, will try to further torpedo talks with the Taliban. But Ghani is also dependent on the Americans.
Why do you exclude the country that then has to endure the consequences in the end ????????
It is also uncertain whether a ceasefire - or at least a permanent reduction in violence - is possible.
The Taliban are not a monolithic organization; there are factions that accuse the leadership of having made too great concessions to the Americans.
It is therefore possible that individual Taliban groups will continue to fight one way or another. There is also no guarantee on the part of the government that a ceasefire will be observed.
In some places, government forces count on the help of local militias, which are difficult to control.
Over the past few months, the Taliban have always asserted that they are striving for peace. That is entirely believable.
The war, which killed hundreds of thousands of Afghans, is also causing a horrific blood toll on the Taliban.
The peace process is associated with great risks for the Islamists.
They had always opposed a sustained ceasefire in the past because they feared that if there was a longer break from fighting, many fighters would run away from them. This fear still persists.
Many Afghans, and especially Afghan women, fear that the warriors of God who had set up a brutal Islamist regime in the 1990s would participate in the government.
The Taliban reject the formally democratic political system in Afghanistan; they describe the Ghani government as a puppet regime of the Americans. It is therefore unclear what a power sharing should look like.
The Taliban stress that they want an “Islamic system” free from foreign interference. They assert that women too have the right to education and to work. But they will first have to provide evidence that they have become more moderate.
Afghanistan is in a stalemate nearly two decades after the US toppled the Taliban regime. The Afghan government forces and the Americans cannot defeat the Taliban, which has around 60,000 men.
The Islamists are also not strong enough to overrun the government troops, although they control or at least have a presence in around half of the country.
The then President Donald Trump had already promised in his 2016 election campaign to end America's “endless wars”.
Barack Obama's previous government had considered talks with the Taliban, but decided against it.
Trump's government launched talks in July 2018 led by former US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, in Doha.
The Taliban have a political office in the Qatari capital. In the summer of 2019, the parties were about to sign an agreement. It provided for a partial withdrawal of around 13,000 Americans.
In return, the Taliban promised to prevent Afghanistan from harboring international terrorists such as al-Qaeda. A ceasefire was not part of the proposed agreement.
In early September, Trump abruptly stopped talks after an American soldier was killed in a Taliban attack in Kabul.
But the dialogue was resumed in the months that followed - the breakthrough came in February 2020. The two parties signed the agreement on February 29, 2020.
The majority of the population has never experienced peace. The US, which invaded in 2001, never succeeded in pacifying the country.
The presence of foreign troops and the weakness of the government in Kabul have driven many Afghans into the arms of the Taliban.
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The number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan has risen sharply since 2009
Civilians killed and wounded in the Afghanistan conflict nzz.ch/international/…
2019 was a particularly deadly year as both the Taliban and the US and Afghan government forces stepped up their attacks to strengthen their negotiating position.
American planes dropped 7,423 bombs and missiles - the highest number since 2006, when the military began collecting data.
The renewed intensification of the conflict was devastating for the population: over 10,000 civilians were killed or wounded in 2019.
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