By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press, April 20, 2023
Zalmay Khalilzad, the Former US envoy for Afghanistan, informed in a series of tweets on Tuesday that he welcomes the decision by the UN Secretary-General to host a meeting in Doha of Special Envoys for Afghanistan.
Khalilzad welcomed the meeting, which will be held in the first week of May and proposed four key measures.
He recommended that the “full implementation of the Doha Agreement should be embraced as the common goal.”
He added, “Major figures from the previous Afghan government embrace the agreement as the best framework for dealing with Afghanistan’s challenges. The agreement has not been fully implemented, and no alternative has comparable broad support among Afghans and the international community.”
He also suggested that a road map for implementation be drawn up, considering the current conditions in Afghanistan.
He continued, “To develop the road map, the Secretary-General and the Envoys should have a session with the Taliban during their deliberations.”
“This is needed to determine whether the Islamic Emirate remains committed to the Doha Agreement and to communicate the international community’s commitment to work with them and others on a roadmap for implementation.
“This includes a sequence of steps by the Islamic Emirate and the international community. The roadmap must address the issue of women’s education and employment,” Khalilzad said.
Finally, he recommended a follow-up to the meeting. He said, “The Secretary-General should appoint a personal Envoy to work with Afghans and the relevant internationals in developing and implementing the roadmap.”
Meanwhile, SIGAR said in a report earlier that the Doha agreement paved the way for the collapse of the previous government while strengthening the Taliban then.
In this regard, Khalilzad was the builder and initiative of the Doha agreement, which was a complete failure. Meanwhile, several Afghan experts believe Khalilzad has been hired “to lobby the Taliban group.”
Khalilzad remarks a day after the UN deputy Chief, Amina Mohammad, that the organization plans to arrange a conference in the coming days to discuss granting recognition to Afghanistan’s Taliban.
Mohammed meanwhile said: “We have amazing envoys that work on Afghanistan, and we have Afghan women too, and what we are hoping is that we will gather them now in another two weeks in the region, and they will have that first meeting of envoys across the board, the region and internationally with the secretary general for the first time.”
She continued by saying that it would be “a principle recognition” and “in other words, there are conditions.”
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