Members of Taliban?s peace negotiation team attend a meeting with then US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in the Qatari capital Doha in November 2020. KABUL: The Taliban will send a 10-person delegation to an Afghanistan peace meeting hosted by Russia this week, the insurgent group's spokesman said on Monday .
The US special envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, has this month been travelling around the region trying to shake up the peace process and spark progress as a troop withdrawal deadline nears and Washington reviews its policy for Afghanistan. Khalilzad has also proposed a meeting among main players to be held in Turkey with heavy United Nations involvement next month. The Afghan government has said they would take part in that conference, but the Taliban has not yet confirmed whether they would attend.It comes at a crunch time for the peace process as a May 1 deadline for foreign troops to withdraw from Afghanistan looms.
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