Washington: “We will not attend the Moscow Quartet for Afghanistan.”
The US government has announced that its representatives will not join the Russian-led talks on Afghanistan this week.
While a quadripartite meeting was scheduled to be held in Moscow with representatives of Russia, the United States, China and Pakistan on the situation in Afghanistan, Washington withdrew from the meeting.
US State Department spokesman Ned Price said Monday evening that his envoys would not join Russia-led talks on Afghanistan this week.
“We will not take part in the Moscow talks,” Price was quoted as saying by Reuters. Troika Plus was an effective and constructive association. “We look forward to attending this group meeting in the future, but we are not in a position to attend this week’s [Moscow Plan] meeting.”
Washington withdrew from the meeting as a spokesman for the Taliban interim foreign ministry announced the group’s readiness to attend Moscow’s next meeting on Afghanistan.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said: “I urge you to support this. “I mean Russia, the United States, China with the participation of Pakistan, as well as the ‘Moscow format’, in which key countries in the region, including Central Asian countries, participate.”
Moscow has previously hosted conferences on Afghanistan, and in March of this year held a conference on Afghanistan with representatives from the United States, China and Pakistan, and in its final statement called for peace between the parties involved in Afghanistan and the need to stop Violence in the country asserted that the Taliban had finally taken control of power in Afghanistan.
