A spokesman for the Afghan Taliban movement, Suhail Shaheen, announced the arrival of the negotiating team on behalf of the movement to the State of Qatar, in preparation for the start of peace talks with the Afghan government, which had been repeatedly delayed.
Shaheen told the French press that the talks would start as soon as some of the outstanding technical issues, which he described as small, are resolved.
For his part, the spokesman for the Reconciliation Council of the Afghan government, Fereidun Khuzoon, said that the negotiating team is ready to hold talks.
He added in his tweet on Twitter that the release of the prisoners has completed, and there is no longer any justification for postponing the talks.
Two days ago, the Afghan government announced that the Taliban had released the detainees from the Special Forces who were being held hostage, and the government also released its Taliban detainees, except for a few of them, before the start of peace talks between the two parties in Doha.
The Afghan National Security Council said on its Twitter account that the Afghan government released 400 Taliban detainees, excluding the few whose partners had reservations about them, as he put it.
Press reports said that 5 thousand prisoners were released, except for 7 prisoners wanted by the Taliban.
These developments come after an agreement signed by Washington with the Taliban and signed in Doha last February, which provides for the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan, and paves the way for the launch of peace talks between the Afghan government and the movement to end the 18-year-old war.