terça-feira, 26 de janeiro de 2010

Trilateral Turkey Summit Backs Talks To Taliban

Written by Quqnoos.com




The Afghan government is willing to talk to those Taliban elements who lay down their arms, President Karzai said.

President Hamid Karzai in the trilateral Turkey summit held on Monday said his government might also request the UN Security Council to remove such groups from the list of those identified for sanctions.
Turkish President Abdullah Gul, the host of the summit, said a regional summit to be held on Tuesday involving Afghanistan and its six immediate neighbours was not a prelude to the forthcoming London conference.
“The two events are not related to each other but the organisers of the London summit could benefit from the discussions here”, he said.
He said the Trilateral Summit would continue making tangible progress towards strengthening ties among the three countries and to broker a durable Pak-Afghan peace and harmony.
The leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Turkey addressed a joint press conference on Monday, saying the Turkey summit -- the forth one in the past three years -- would facilitate the restoration of peace and stability in Afghanistan.
“The efforts of Turkish leaders to use their good offices to bring together Pakistan and Afghanistan to find a solution of their problems was commendable,” said Pakistani President Asef Ali Zardari.
The first of the trilateral Turkey summits was held on April 1, 2007, the second on December 6, 2008 and the third on April 30 2009.
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