U.S.-Afghan tensions erupt over Kabul's exclusion from peace talks

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The United States and Afghanistan clashed publicly on Thursday over U.S. peace t...

WASHINGTON - The United States and Afghanistan clashed publicly on Thursday over U.S. peace talks with the Taliban, with a visiting Afghan official accusing the chief U.S. negotiator of “delegitimizing” the Kabul government by excluding it from the deliberations.

The feud thrust into the open tensions that have been building between the allies over U.S. efforts to forge a peace pact with the Taliban paving the way for a U.S. troop withdrawal that Kabul fears could weaken its own negotiating position. Viceroy is a politically loaded term in South Asia as it was the title of the colonial administrator of British-ruled India.

“We think either Zal, Ambassador Khalilzad, doesn’t know how to negotiate there may be other reasons behind what he’s doing,” Mohib said. The department’s No. 3 diplomat reminded Mohib that Khalilzad represents Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “and that attacks on Ambassador Khalilzad are attacks on the department and only serve to hinder the bilateral relationship and the peace process,” Palladino said.

FILE PHOTO: Afghanistan National Security Advisor Hamdullah Mohib shakes hands with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi before their meeting at the Zhongnanhai Leadership Compound in Beijing, China January 10, 2019. Andy Wong/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

 

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