KABUL: An Afghan harmony arrangements group has touched base in Abu Dhabi, an authority said Tuesday, multi day after talks gone to by US and Taliban delegates were held in the city went for consummation the 17-year strife.
The group, driven by boss arbitrator Abdul Salam Rahimi, "touched base in Abu Dhabi to start closeness exchange with the Taliban appointment and to plan for an up close and personal gathering between the opposite sides", the Afghan presidential representative Haroon Chakhansuri tweeted.
The 12-man group was first reported in November by President Ashraf Ghani as a feature of a strategic exertion to convey the Taliban to the table for harmony chats with the administration in Kabul.
In any case, the Taliban have not affirmed a gathering, and issued an announcement on Monday repeating their long-standing pledge not to talk with Afghan authorities.
In another message discharged Tuesday the activists said they had held "fundamental talks" with the US State Department's extraordinary agent, Zalmay Khalilzad, on Monday, with the dialogs to proceed.
They likewise said they had held "broad" gatherings with authorities from Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and the UAE, rehashing requests for universal powers to be pulled back from Afghanistan.
Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Pakistan were the main three nations to perceive the Taliban government amid its five-year rule from 1996-2001.
The US didn't affirm coordinate gatherings among Khalilzad and the Taliban in Abu Dhabi.
Late Monday Washington said gatherings were progressing in the UAE city "to advance an intra-Afghan discourse toward consummation the contention", and that Khalilzad was in the area.
Khalilzad "has in the past met, and will keep on meeting with every invested individual, including the Taliban, to help an arranged settlement to the contention", it proceeded.
The gatherings are the most recent in a whirlwind of political endeavors as Washington searches an exit from the contention, which started with the US attack in 2001.
Khalilzad, who has communicated seeks after an arrangement to be set up before Afghaninstan's presidential race planned for April one year from now, has made a few excursions to the district since his arrangement in September.
On this outing the State Department said he is additionally visiting Afghanistan, Pakistan, Russia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Qatar, and Belgium, where he tweeted that he had met with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.
The universal network has been hopeful about the likelihood of talks.
"The likelihood of an arranged end to the contention has never been more genuine in the previous 17 years than it is presently," the leader of the UN mission in Afghanistan, Tadamichi Yamamoto, told the UN Security Council in New York on Monday.
Be that as it may, the Taliban have increased attacks on Afghan powers even as the US increments discretionary endeavors, with a huge number of individuals uprooted by battling.
Regular citizens keep on confronting "extraordinary dimensions of damage", an ongoing UN report stated, with 8,050 individuals executed or injured in the January to September period this year.
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