KABUL – The Taliban will consider taking part in the next intra-Afghanpeace conference in Uzbekistan as soon as they receive an invitation, aTaliban spokesman said on Saturday.
Afghanistan’s 1TV channel cited sources who attended the recent conferencein Qatar as saying earlier that the next meet-up would be hosted by thehistoric Uzbek city of Samarkand in three or four weeks.
“A date for the Uzbekistan meeting has not been set yet but if we get aninvitation we will consider it,” Suhail Shaheen, the spokesman forTaliban’s political office in Doha, told Sputnik.
The militant group has so far refused to talk directly to the Afghangovernment, who they call a US puppet. Afghan government officials whoattended the July 7-8 talks with the Taliban in Doha acted privately.
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