Nasib Shah Shinwari
LANDIKOTAL: NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday said that we are supporting the peace struggles in Afghanistan and we want a peaceful solution to the war in Afghanistan.
According to the Afghan media report, the NATO Secretary General was addressing journalists before the launching of the defense ministers meeting in Brussels and said that Nato forces want the Afghan issue to be resolved through the political process.
He praised the role of Afghanistan’s president Dr. Ashraf Ghani for the ceasefire with the Taliban group and the peace process with the Taliban which he launched last year.
He said that NATO and with Afghanistan government would jointly decide best about the future of Afghanistan.
The NATO secretary general said that we were fully supporting the peace process and struggles for peace in Afghanistan and if any deal of peace took place, NATO would work for its implementation.
He said that we want a peaceful and political settlement of the war in Afghanistan and for that purpose, we were in close contact with the US special representative in Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad.
He said that yet the NATO force has not taken any decision about the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan but the NATO was fully in the favor of peace talks and it seeks a political resolution of the issue in Afghanistan.
He said NATO doesn’t want to be forever in Afghanistan but wants to fight terrorism in the country.
It is pertinent to mention here that the US-Taliban second round of peace talks would be launched on 25th Feb 2019 in Doha Qatar for which the Afghan Taliban has announced the names.
The names of some well-known Taliban leaders are also included in the 14 members list who has freed from the Guantanamo Bay detention center and would represent the Afghan Taliban in negotiations with US officials.
