Afghanistan Peace CampaignAccording to Rubin, the Doha agreement does not specify that the US will recognize the Islamic Emirate.
Barnett Rubin, an Afghanistan expert with the Center on International Cooperation, said the US’s sending the deputy head of the CIA for talks with the Islamic Emirate indicates terrorism is a priority.
He made the remarks in an interview with TOLOnews.
Rubin said that there should be a process of discussing the elements of the sanctions.
“I prefer to say that there should be a process of discussing the elements of the sanctions because there are sanctions against the individual members of the Taliban, there are sanctions against the organizations and so on,” he said.
“I think the fact that the US sent the deputy head of the CIA … in addition to the officials in the State Department, shows that they put a very high priority on discussion of issues of terrorism,” he said.
According to Rubin, the Doha agreement does not specify that the US will recognize the Islamic Emirate.
“The Doha agreement doesn’t say that the United States will recognize the Taliban or an organization known as the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. It says it will recognize the government that results from negotiations among all the Afghan sides,” he said.