{"id":3217,"date":"2020-11-29T05:46:56","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T05:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.caps.af\/?p=3217"},"modified":"2020-11-29T05:46:56","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T05:46:56","slug":"afghan-republics-team-agrees-in-principle-to-peace-talks-procedures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/caps.af\/?p=3217","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Republic\u2019s team agrees \u2018in principle\u2019 to peace talks procedures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\"><strong>(ATN News): The Afghanistan Republic\u2019s peace negotiating team said on Saturday night that both sides have agreed in principle to the rules and procedures regarding talks going forward but that this does not mean the framework has been finalized.<\/strong> \u201cThe negotiation teams of both sides have ONLY agreed in principle to the 21 articles of the rules &amp; procedures, with the exception of the introduction because it requires further discussion &amp; clarification. Therefore in the joint meeting on Nov 17, 2020 in the presence \u2026 of the host country, it was decided that the rules &amp; procedures will only be considered final once it is presented to the general meeting of both delegations &amp; approved there,\u201d the Afghan Republic\u2019s statement read.\u00a0 \u201cThe IRoA (Islamic Republic of Afghanistan) has shared our understanding of the elements of the introduction with the other side (Taliban),\u201d read the statement. This statement followed soon after Naeem Wardak, the Taliban\u2019s spokesman in Doha posted on Twitter that the \u201cprocedure\u201d to take the intra-Afghan negotiations forward was finalized between the two sides on November 15.\u00a0 In a series of tweets Naeem said: \u201cThe procedure of Intra-Afghan negotiations between the negotiating teams was completed and finalized in 21 articles on the 15th of November 2020.\u201d He said this framework was then interpreted in the presence of the \u201chost\/facilitator country\u201d, that being Qatar, two days later \u2013 on November 17.\u00a0 \u201cA copy of it was handed over to the host\/facilitator country after it was approved by both negotiating teams,\u201d he tweeted. This comes after reports first emerged around November 23 that there had been a breakthrough in stalled talks in Doha, which officially started on September 12.\u00a0 Sources said early this week that Afghanistan Republic\u2019s chief negotiator Massoom Stanikzai and presidential peace advisor Salam Rahimi were in Kabul to discuss progress with President Ashraf Ghani.\u00a0 But both parties to the talks remained tight-lipped about any progress. In fact, Presidential Palace spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said at a press conference on Wednesday that no progress had been made in Doha regarding peace talks. Sediqqi said the Taliban\u2019s demands contradict the Afghan Constitution but he did confirm that Stanikzai had been in Kabul. Seddiqi said the republic\u2019s negotiating team will hold discussions with the Taliban in respect of the Afghan Constitution and on the advice of the peace consultative Jirga. Wednesday\u2019s denial comes after some sources told Ariana News on condition of anonymity that Afghan leaders had approved some points that had been contested \u2013 leading to a breakthrough in the talks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ATN News): The Afghanistan Republic\u2019s peace negotiating team said on Saturday night that both sides have agreed in principle to the rules and procedures regarding talks going forward but that this does not mean the framework has been finalized. \u201cThe negotiation teams of both sides have ONLY agreed in principle to the 21 articles of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archived-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3218,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3217\/revisions\/3218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/caps.af\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}