The meetings are continuing in Doha, amid the US announcement of efforts for a comprehensive ceasefire in Afghanistan, and Russia has invited the Afghan government and the Taliban to meet in Moscow, while Qatar considered that the proliferation of initiatives is not in the interest of the current negotiations.

On Tuesday, the Qatari capital witnessed meetings held by the United Nations envoy to Afghanistan, Deborah Lions, with the Taliban delegation, where they discussed with him the acceleration of direct negotiations to reach a settlement in Afghanistan, and talks will be held with the Afghan government delegation.

State Department spokesman Ned Price said Washington was working closely with the Afghan parties to encourage progress on a political settlement and a comprehensive ceasefire.

"We are making diplomatic efforts to mobilize regional and international support to bring peace to Afghanistan," he added, stressing that any permanent agreement in Afghanistan must be led by Afghans and that his country is not the one who dictates the agreement.

This comes after the United States announced that its envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, will stay in Doha for a longer time.

Russian initiative

For his part, Mutlaq Al-Qahtani, Special Envoy of the Qatari Minister of Foreign Affairs for Combating Terrorism and Mediation in Settlement of Disputes, said that the proliferation of conferences and initiatives on the Afghan issue are not in the interest of the current negotiations in Doha.

Al-Qahtani added in an interview with Al-Jazeera that the vision is unclear about the upcoming meeting in Moscow.

The Qatari official considered that the withdrawal from Afghanistan must be responsible, and that the American side does not see a withdrawal from there possible before the first of next May.

These statements came after both the Afghan government and the Taliban announced that they had received an invitation from Russia to attend an international conference in Moscow in order to discuss the future of peace in the country.

And Moscow announced that the international meeting, to be held on the 18th of this month, aims to give an impetus to the Doha negotiations.

The Russian President's Special Envoy to Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, explained that the meeting also aims to push the Afghan parties to substantive negotiations, noting the participation of Russia, China, the United States and Pakistan, in addition to delegations from the Kabul government, the Taliban, and the Supreme Council for Reconciliation.

Peace proposal

And American media have previously published what could be considered President Joe Biden's peace plan in Afghanistan, which includes the formation of an alternative transitional government to the current one, until a new constitution is agreed upon and general elections are held on its basis, provided that the country will be governed during the transitional period by an administration led by a president in agreement It has all sides.

Under the proposed plan, during the transitional period, parliament could be expanded to include Taliban members, or that could be suspended until after the elections.

The plan proposes that the next national government will not be matched by governments or security forces, that the Taliban should abandon the so-called safe havens and military ties to it in neighboring countries, and the country will not harbor "terrorists" or allow activities on its territory that threaten other countries.