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2021-04-23 The Grand Turk
Afghan, Turkish, Pakistani Ministers to Meet in Istanbul Friday
In which Turkey pretends to be important.
[ToloNews] A trilateral meeting between the ministers of foreign affairs of The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
, Afghanistan and Pakistain will take place on Friday in Istanbul, the Ottoman Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday.

"Along with recent developments regarding the Afghan grinding of the peace processor, cooperation in the fields of security, energy, connectivity and irregular migration will be discussed during the Trilateral Meeting," it said.

"On the margins of the meeting, Mevlut Cavusoglu will also hold bilateral meetings with his Afghan and Pak counterparts," it added.

In the meantime, Haneef Atmar, Afghanistan's foreign minister, has left Kabul for Istanbul this morning to attend the meeting.

At the meeting, the resumption of peace talks, the strengthening of a regional consensus in support of Afghan peace, the role of Turkey and Pakistain, and the strengthening of trilateral relations will be discussed, the Afghanistan foreign ministry said in a statement.

This comes as the US-backed Afghan peace conference in Turkey was postponed over non-participation by the Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...
The conference was scheduled for April 24 and was expected to see inclusive participation from parties to the Afghan conflict.

"We have consulted with Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, the US and the UN," Ottoman Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday. "We have decided to postpone the Istanbul Conference on the Afghanistan grinding of the peace processor after Eid al-Fitr."

The US, Turkey, Qatar and UN have reportedly attempted to convince the Taliban to attend the planned meeting in Turkey.

But the group has insisted that the US first needs to implement the Doha agreement before the start of the Istanbul conference, meaning that the US needs to honor its agreement signed under the Trump administration to withdraw all US troops from Afghanistan by May 1.

The Afghan government on Tuesday said the list of a republic delegation for the conference has been finalized.

A high-level Afghan government official who spoke on condition of anonymity told TOLOnews that there is the possibility that a 15- or 17-member team will represent the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Afghanistan at the conference scheduled for April 24.

The High Council of National Reconciliation (HCNR) also confirmed the finalization of the republic's negotiating team.
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