Peace Agreement Between America And Taliban

14 Déc Peace Agreement Between America And Taliban

Peace agreements generally have implementation mechanisms that make each party accountable for its commitments. This is not the case with the Taliban agreement. It contains no provision on what will happen if the Taliban break their promises, with the exception of the United States, which stops its withdrawal. The Qataris, who are hosting peace talks in Afghanistan, do not have the official power to push the parties to comply. The main objectives of the United States should be to reach political consensus within Afghanistan, to support intra-Afghan peace negotiations with the help of regional and international partners, and to strengthen Afghan security forces to face threats with limited external participation. To advance these goals, U.S. politicians should take the following steps: but what happens next remains a problem. Although on March 18, 2020, the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan was temporarily suspended due to the coronavirus outbreak, U.S. forces have already begun to leave the country. Some in the United States question the terms of the agreement and even call it a surrender document.

Faced with the weakness of the Kabul government and the U.S. branch that has supported your troops, some would say that they support the Kabul government, others fear that the Taliban will wait for American troops to leave and invade Kabul, as they did in 1995. If that happens, the 20 years of war and the loss of nearly 2,500 American lives will have nothing to do. Continued violence on both sides remains an obstacle to a final peace agreement. During the preliminary talks, the Taliban continued to fight on the battlefield and launched terrorist attacks in the capital and also threatened the 2019 Afghan presidential elections on September 28. [27] According to U.S. Air Force statistics released in February 2020, the United States dropped more bombs on Afghanistan in 2019 than since 2013. [28] The agreement also provides that the Taliban and the Afghan government will begin a « dialogue and negotiations » on 10 March 2020, a date that has already passed. The specific themes of this « dialogue and negotiations » are not specified, but they should at least include the role of the Taliban in a future Afghan government, the role of Islamic law in the Afghan constitution, the protection and rights of women and other minorities and, ultimately, the direction of the country.

As a precursor to intra-Afghan negotiations, the agreement states that the United States is ready to cooperate « with all parties concerned » in the release of war prisoners and political prisoners. The agreement provided that the Afghan government would release 5,000 Taliban prisoners by March 10, 2020 and that the Taliban would release 1,000 Afghan prisoners.