EFSAS comments on The Moscow Format for Afghan reconciliation
November 16, 2018
Following up on its role as a persuasive power-broker in Syria and intent on shaping outcomes in its more immediate neighborhood, the Kremlin on 9 November organized a significant meeting of what has come to be termed as the Moscow Format of engagement aimed at finding a negotiated settlement to the decades-long violent conflict in Afghanistan. While this endeavor, as also other attempts to sit across the table with the Taliban in search of the long-elusive peace in Afghanistan, are welcome developments, the absence of insistence that the terrorist outfit eschew violence prior to ushering it onto the table does raise serious concerns.
