by Karimullah Amini
The U.S strongly supports an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned peace process, said U.S department of state spokesman Mark Tuner on Wednesday, but gave no details about a U.S role in the Afghan peace dialogue.
"The stories that emerged overnight about renewed peace talks. So I'm not going to speak about what our role may or may not be with regard to this new initiative. But as we made clear before, we believe that a peace accord is really the primary or the only pathway to ensuring peace and stability long term in Afghanistan. So we have supported and continue to support an Afghan-led, an Afghan-owned process for negotiated resolution to the conflict there. And we're committed to promoting that as much as we can," said Tuner.
The statement comes just a day after reports surfaced in international media over backdoor peace negotiation talks between the Taliban representatives and Afghan officials in Qatari capital Doha, raising hopes for a breakthrough in the process which hit deadlocks last year following the killing of the group's infamous leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a U.S drone strike in Pakistan.
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