UN-led Doha meeting with Taliban not about recognition, says UN


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  • Thursday, 27 Jun 2024

FILE PHOTO: Rosemary DiCarlo Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs of United Nations attends the plenary session of the Summit on peace in Ukraine, in Stansstad near Lucerne, Switzerland, Saturday, June 15, 2024. MICHAEL BUHOLZER/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A United Nations-led meeting with Afghanistan's Taliban in Qatar this weekend will not be a discussion about international recognition of the group, U.N. political affairs chief Rosemary DiCarlo said on Wednesday.

The meeting, which will also be attended by envoys from some 25 countries, will be the third such meeting in Doha, but the first attended by the Taliban, which has not been internationally recognized since seizing power in August 2021 as U.S.-led forces withdrew after 20 years of war.

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