Xinhua News Agency, Doha, March 6 (Reporter Yang Yuanyong) The Afghan Taliban said on the 6th that the Taliban will participate in Afghanistan's internal negotiations only if the detained Taliban members are released.
The spokesman for the Taliban Political Office in Doha, Suhail Shahin, said on social media on the 6th that only if the terms of the peace agreement reached between the Taliban and the United States are implemented and the detained Taliban personnel are released, the Taliban will participate in the original scheduled for the 10th. Beginning of internal Afghanistan negotiations.
Sha Xin said that the Taliban has formed a negotiating team and formulated a negotiating agenda, "we will negotiate in accordance with the agreed steps." "If others are forced to postpone," others should be held accountable. "
On February 29, the US government and the Afghan Taliban signed a peace agreement in Doha, Qatar. According to the agreement, to promote reconciliation within Afghanistan, the Afghan government will release about 5,000 Taliban prisoners and the Taliban will release about 1,000 prisoners. However, the change of prison was explicitly opposed by Afghan President Ghani. He said that the matter should be decided by the Afghan government and not the United States. He is not ready to release Taliban prisoners before the peace process begins.