U.S. envoy plans to attend Afghan peace conference in Moscow -State Department

Reuters · 03/15/2021 18:22
U.S. envoy plans to attend Afghan peace conference in Moscow -State Department

- U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad plans to attend a March 18 conference in Moscow on accelerating the Afghanistan peace process, deputy State Department spokeswoman Jalina Porter said on Monday.

The conference will "compliment all other international efforts to support the Afghanistan peace process and also reflects the international community's concerns about progress to date," she told a news briefing.



(Reporting by Jonathan Landay and Simon Lewis
Editing by Chris Reese)

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