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TOLOnews 10pm News 17 February 2020

The US-Taliban agreement – which has been finalized in principle – will be "signed by both sides at the end of February," the deputy leader of the group, Mawlawi Abdul Salam Hanafi, said in a recorded 3-minute interview published on a pro-Taliban website, nunn.asia, on Monday.

Hanafi said that the US-Taliban talks – which started late in 2018 and continued for 10 rounds, mostly in the Gulf state of Qatar – have ended and both sides are preparing to sign the agreement.

The United States Embassy in Kabul on Monday hosted an event on post-peace challenges and opportunities and the US Chargé d’Affaires Ross Wilson said his country and its allies are engaged in Afghanistan to support the country “unlike the Soviet Union,” which abandoned it to “another cycle of war and violence.”

“Unlike when the Soviet Union fled this country and abandoned it to a new cycle of war and violence in the early 1990s, this time, the European Union, the United States, such partners as Norway, Japan Australia, many others I can identify, the entire apparatus of the United Nations and its various agencies, the World Bank, a variety of non-governmental organizations, at least a couple of which are represented here, all of those remain engaged here as strong supporters to help this country and its leaders, including you,” he said.

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TOLOnews 10pm News 17 February 2020

The US-Taliban agreement – which has been finalized in principle – will be "signed by both sides at the end of February," the deputy leader of the group, Mawlawi Abdul Salam Hanafi, said in a recorded 3-minute interview published on a pro-Taliban website, nunn.asia, on Monday.

Hanafi said that the US-Taliban talks – which started late in 2018 and continued for 10 rounds, mostly in the Gulf state of Qatar – have ended and both sides are preparing to sign the agreement.

The United States Embassy in Kabul on Monday hosted an event on post-peace challenges and opportunities and the US Chargé d’Affaires Ross Wilson said his country and its allies are engaged in Afghanistan to support the country “unlike the Soviet Union,” which abandoned it to “another cycle of war and violence.”

“Unlike when the Soviet Union fled this country and abandoned it to a new cycle of war and violence in the early 1990s, this time, the European Union, the United States, such partners as Norway, Japan Australia, many others I can identify, the entire apparatus of the United Nations and its various agencies, the World Bank, a variety of non-governmental organizations, at least a couple of which are represented here, all of those remain engaged here as strong supporters to help this country and its leaders, including you,” he said.

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