KABUL: A Taliban delegation met with the Chinese special representative for Afghanistan in Beijing on Sunday to discuss the group’s peace talks with the United States, a spokesman for the militant group said.
The meeting comes after the cancellation of the eleventh hour of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, earlier this month of negotiations between his country and the Taliban, which many hoped would pave the way for a broader peace agreement with the Afghan government and end a war of 17 years.
The nine-member Taliban delegation traveled to Beijing and met with Deng Xijun, China's special representative for Afghanistan, said Suhail Shaheen, spokesman for the Afghan group in Qatar, on his official Twitter account.
"The Chinese special representative said that the agreement between the United States and the Taliban is a good framework for the peaceful solution of the Afghan problem and that they support it," Shaheen wrote.
Mullah Baradar, the leader of the Taliban delegation, said they had maintained a dialogue and reached a "comprehensive agreement," Shaheen tweeted.
"Now, if the president of the United States cannot remain committed to his words and breaks his promise, then he is responsible for any kind of distraction and bloodshed in Afghanistan," Baradar said, according to Shaheen.
Posted on Dawn, September 23, 2019
Source: https://www.dawn.com/news/1506815/baradar-led-taliban-team-meets-chinas-special-envoy