Today, Tuesday, Emir of the State of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, held talks with Afghan President Muhammad Ashraf Ghani, who is visiting Doha.

The Qatar News Agency said that the meeting discussed bilateral relations between Qatar and Afghanistan, and developments in Afghanistan in light of the ongoing Afghan peace negotiations in Doha, in order to achieve security, stability and peace.

The Afghan President praised the role of Qatar and its eagerness to bring peace to Afghanistan, and its efforts to host the Afghan negotiations in order to reach a lasting peace.

On the other hand, the US special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad met in Doha, the Afghan president, who is currently on an official visit to the State of Qatar.

Khalilzad said - in a tweet on Twitter - that he told Ghani that the Afghans should not miss the opportunity for peace, and the Afghan president was quoted as saying that he supported the Afghan negotiators' work, whatever the need.

Khalilzad renewed the United States' continued support for Afghanistan and the peace process aimed at achieving a political settlement and ending decades of war.

No deal

Regarding the conduct of the ongoing meetings in Doha, the spokesman for the Taliban's political office, Muhammad Naim, denied to Al-Jazeera that the movement had agreed with the Afghan government on organizational rules to move forward in the Afghan peace negotiations.

The Reuters news agency reported that the Taliban and the Afghan government reached an agreement in this regard in direct negotiations between them in Doha.

Official sources told Reuters that the two parties - with the help of US officials - agreed on a document of 19 articles that constitute binding grounds for them, with the aim of preventing any stumbling in the ongoing negotiations in Doha.

In this regard, Al-Jazeera correspondent Abdul Fattah Fayed quoted the Afghan Foreign Minister, who is in turn in the Qatari capital, that no agreement has yet been reached on the organizational rules.

He was also quoted as saying that the most important obstacles that prevent the current talks from moving to the stage of the general meeting lie in the political agreement on the form of the Afghan state, and the reduction of violence and escalation in Afghanistan.

The peace negotiations in Afghanistan were launched last month between the Afghan parties in Doha.