His will is ongoing: Richard Holbrooke in an interview with Hamid Karzai in April 2010 The last December deceased American special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Richard Holbrooke, has worked until recently vigorously for the resumption of direct talks between American officials and the Taliban.
At first encounters between American diplomats and senior representatives of the Taliban, it has now come, reports the weekly newspaper "The New Yorker in its issue appearing this Monday. The newspaper has learned from conversations with several government officials, the meetings have been preparatory in nature and have not yet entered the stage of peace negotiations.
Who participated in the talks is unknown. Clearly, however, is that Taliban leader Mullah Omar is not yet involved in the talks. Whether the negotiations should be continued and even intensified, is controversial in Washington. Hillary Clinton supported in a speech to the Asia Society's initiative on the weekend of her late emissary Richard Holbrooke.
"I know that reconciliation efforts of so brutal an enemy as the Taliban as many offensive and are even considered unimaginable. Diplomacy certainly would be easy if we would only talk with our friends. But so easy is it to reach a peace. Richard Holbrooke spent his life devoted to this goal, "said Mrs.
Clinton. The Secretary of State joined with the actual offer to continue talks inviting the Taliban to lay down their arms and accept Afghanistan's constitution. Otherwise they would have to be declared enemy of the international community to "relentless attacks" Get ready. "You can not sit out the war with us, and they will not defeat us," said the Foreign Minister.
The inclusion of direct negotiations between Washington and various Taliban groups is also seen as a reaction to the fact failed talks between the government in Kabul under President Hamid Karzai and the insurgents. These had been supported by the United Nations. Last summer was a man who posed as a Taliban leader, to do with the Islamist insurgents but nothing had persuaded Afghan government employees to pay considerable sums of money.
Washington is now trying to increase the military pressure against the terrorist network Al Qaeda and against irreconcilable Taliban as the Haqqani Network in North Waziristan, to ensure that the talks with possible reconciliation consent Taliban to the "Shura of Quetta" to step up to their leaders in the western Pakistani city Quetta resident. 
At first encounters between American diplomats and senior representatives of the Taliban, it has now come, reports the weekly newspaper "The New Yorker in its issue appearing this Monday. The newspaper has learned from conversations with several government officials, the meetings have been preparatory in nature and have not yet entered the stage of peace negotiations.
Who participated in the talks is unknown. Clearly, however, is that Taliban leader Mullah Omar is not yet involved in the talks. Whether the negotiations should be continued and even intensified, is controversial in Washington. Hillary Clinton supported in a speech to the Asia Society's initiative on the weekend of her late emissary Richard Holbrooke.
"I know that reconciliation efforts of so brutal an enemy as the Taliban as many offensive and are even considered unimaginable. Diplomacy certainly would be easy if we would only talk with our friends. But so easy is it to reach a peace. Richard Holbrooke spent his life devoted to this goal, "said Mrs.
Clinton. The Secretary of State joined with the actual offer to continue talks inviting the Taliban to lay down their arms and accept Afghanistan's constitution. Otherwise they would have to be declared enemy of the international community to "relentless attacks" Get ready. "You can not sit out the war with us, and they will not defeat us," said the Foreign Minister.
The inclusion of direct negotiations between Washington and various Taliban groups is also seen as a reaction to the fact failed talks between the government in Kabul under President Hamid Karzai and the insurgents. These had been supported by the United Nations. Last summer was a man who posed as a Taliban leader, to do with the Islamist insurgents but nothing had persuaded Afghan government employees to pay considerable sums of money.
Washington is now trying to increase the military pressure against the terrorist network Al Qaeda and against irreconcilable Taliban as the Haqqani Network in North Waziristan, to ensure that the talks with possible reconciliation consent Taliban to the "Shura of Quetta" to step up to their leaders in the western Pakistani city Quetta resident.
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