Afghan President Hamid Karzai has accused foreign powers of ‘plotting’ against the country’s peace process.
“Any effort to conduct peace talks individually is not an effort for peace but it’s a plot by the foreigners, aimed at weakening Afghanistan,” said
Karzai at a conference in the capital, Kabul.
The Afghan president, without pointing at any particular country, said he has told the US government during his recent visit to Washington
that “no foreign party must try to take the Afghan peace process in its hand.”
Karzai added that all talks with the Taliban should take place under the government-appointed High Peace Council.
The president went on to say that some Afghan prominent political figures have been influenced by foreign powers to hold talks through side channels, rather than working through the council.
“All our politicians must know that the peace process will only have a good result if we are unified and the process goes forward and the process will go forward through the High Peace Council,” Karzai said.
He called on all politicians to refuse the foreign offers, saying participating in peace negotiations without the government would weaken the nation.