(ATN News): Arriving at Bagram Airfield at around 08:30 p.m. local time, Trump spent more than two and half hours, delivering Thanksgiving greetings to U.S. forces, serving them turkey and meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in U.S. largest military base in Afghanistan. During his meeting with President Ghani, Mr. Trump announced that he had restarted peace talks with Taliban that he called off almost three month ago. \u201cThe Taliban wants to make a deal and we\u2019re meeting with them and we\u2019re saying it has to be a cease-fire and they didn\u2019t want to do a cease-fire, and now they do want to do a cease-fire,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI believe it\u2019ll probably work out that way.\u201d U.S President also said that US was \u201csubstantially\u201d reducing troop numbers. \u201cWe\u2019ve made tremendous progress and at the same time we\u2019ve been drawing down our troops,\u201d Trump said. Meanwhile, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in his remarks at the Airfield thanked U.S troops for their \u201cultimate sacrifices\u201d and praised Trump\u2019s South Asia Strategy for \u201cwiping out ISIS and Al Qaeda.\u201d He also expressed appreciations to Trump for his \u201cvery principled decisions regarding putting limits on the type of peace that will ensure the gains of the past year and ensure your security and our security.\u201d Donald Trump\u2019s sudden announcement on peace talks comes about three months after he \u201ccalled off\u201d the peace negotiations with the Taliban leaders after the group carried out an attack in Kabul in which one American and 11 others were killed. Last week three prisoners of the insurgent group were exchanged for two western Professors as an effort to revive the negotiations with the Taliban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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