Negotiation with Taliban best chance for Afghanistan peace: study
AFP - Western governments must negotiate with the Taliban to end their guerrilla war against NATO forces in Afghanistan and allow a peaceful state to emerge, said a Canadian report released Thursday.
The study by a small team of Afghanistan geopolitical experts from across Canada said negotiations with the Taliban are not guaranteed to succeed, but "failure to negotiate will almost certainly cede the field to them."
"I think it's the best chance for success and the least bad option," said lead author Gordon Smith, a former Canadian ambassador to NATO and now director of the Centre for Global Studies at the University of Victoria.
"Negotiating with the Taliban would be very difficult and very distasteful. These are not people I would want around my dining table. But I don't see any alternative. We need some form of political resolution," he told AFP.
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