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Donald Trump announced that Taliban negotiations "are over for good" REUTERS / Joshua Roberts

US President Donald Trump assured on Monday (September 9th) that negotiations with the Taliban were "finished for good" after the cancellation of a secret meeting planned for Camp David, whose very idea continued to stir up Washington.

The words of the tenant of the White House contrast with those of the head of the American diplomacy Mike Pompeo, which had not excluded Sunday a resumption of the discussions with the insurgents Afghan. " They are finished for good. As far as I'm concerned, they are finished, "Donald Trump said from the White House gardens, opting for a resolutely offensive tone.

After breaking these negotiations, which seemed to be on the verge of a historic agreement after 18 years of war, Donald Trump assured that the US military had toughened its offensive against the rebel movement since the deadly attack in Kabul on Thursday. who killed an American soldier.

" In the past four days, we have hit our enemies harder than at any time in the past ten years, " he said. " There was a meeting planned, it was my idea, and it was also my idea to cancel it. I did not discuss this with anyone else. When I heard that they had killed one of our soldiers and twelve innocent people, I said that I will not meet them under any circumstances. Never. They made a mistake. "

Does the dramatic breaking of the negotiations mean the abandonment of the gradual withdrawal of some of the 13,000 to 14,000 US troops in Afghanistan, as envisaged in the agreement that was being negotiated? " We have been doing police there for a long time, and the government is going to have to take responsibility. Since my campaign I say we will leave as soon as possible. I would like us to leave the country but we will do it at the right time, "answered Donald Trump, elusive, elected on the promise to" end the endless wars ".

(with AFP)

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