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The United States hopes that a peace agreement will be reached in Afghanistan before the elections scheduled for July next year. This was declared Friday, February 8, the US envoy Zalmay Khalizad. The US negotiator visiting Washington, however, acknowledged that much remained to be done to reach this agreement. Zalmay Khalizad also spoke about the withdrawal of US troops. Such a withdrawal will be linked to the conclusion of an agreement, he explained.
" My goal is not to reach an agreement on the withdrawal of troops, but a peace agreement, " said Zalmay Khalizad. Because only a peace agreement can allow the withdrawal of troops. We found an agreement in principle with the Taliban on a framework that would provide the guarantees and a control mechanism so that no terrorist group or individual could use the area they control in Afghanistan against the interests of the United States. allies or whoever it is. "
And Zalmay Khalizad continues: " In the same way, we agreed with the government on a possible US withdrawal as part of a global agreement. Once the inter-Afghan dialogue begins, which is our key objective, we hope that these two parallel discussions will be brought together. But even if we manage to make substantial progress on these two key issues, a peace agreement will not be reached until the other issues are resolved. And as I said before, there is no agreement on anything as long as there is no agreement on everything. "