Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the U.S. and the Taliban will sign an agreement on Feb. 29, after an official week-long period of violence reduction in Afghanistan, which begins at midnight on Friday
KABUL/WASHINGTON/PESHAWAR, Pakistan - The United States and the Taliban will sign an agreement on Feb. 29 at the end of a planned week-long “reduction in violence” in Afghanistan, U.S. officials and the Taliban said on Friday, stirring fresh hopes for an end to the protracted conflict.
The reduction in violence , to be observed by Afghan, international and Taliban forces, will begin at midnight on Friday, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said in a televised address. The agreement will be signed in Doha between Taliban representatives and U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, who has been leading the United States’ negotiation team, a senior State Department official told journalists.
“We hope the reduction in violence is extended for a longer time and opens the way for a ceasefire and intra-Afghan talks,” Javid Faisal, spokesperson for the Afghan National Security Adviser, told Reuters. Afghan forces will keep up normal military operations against other groups such as Islamic State during the period, Afghan spokesman Faisal said.“Local government and security officials have been instructed by the president himself on how to follow the regulations agreed upon for the RIV period,” he said.Taliban says agreement with U.S. to be signed February 29 in front of international observers
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