TEHRAN – Iranian Ambassador at the United Nations officially responds overstalled Afghanistan peace process after Taliban and United States officialsdeadlock.
Iran’s Permanent Representative at the UN, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, in anaddress to the United Nations Security Council meeting on Tuesday said anypeace process for Afghanistan should be UN-facilitated, Afghan-led,Afghan-owned and Afghan-controlled.
He said the Afghan government should have a central role in all peaceefforts and any peace agreement should be concluded with its participation.
“We call on the regional and international players to support such a peaceprocess and allow the future of Afghanistan to be determined exclusively bythe Afghans themselves,” Mr. Takht-Ravanchi said as quoted by Iran’s Mehrnews agency.
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“No country has the right to decide for the future of Afghanistan and anypeace negotiation in the absence of Afghanistan government and politicalfactions of the country or in a unilateral, exclusive and nontransparentmanner is doomed to fail,” he stressed.
