Dacic: We organized Afghanistan peace talks three times in Belgrade

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Serbian Assembly President Ivica Dacic said today that Belgrade organized peace talks between the Afghan authorities and the Taliban three times, which were assessed as successful and both sides were grateful, but that Serbia still suffers the consequences of the US intervention in Afghanistan, which was among the first countries to recognize so-called Kosovo.

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"As the host of the negotiations, Serbia created a good story for itself in relations with Kabul, both sides were grateful to us, but still as a country that is not directly involved in the conflict, we are suffering the consequences of the US intervention," said Dacic and stressed that they agreed not to speak publicly about these peace negotiations.

"While I was the minister of foreign affairs we organized peace negotiations between the authorities of Afghanistan and the Taliban in Belgrade, they came three times, I was the host. Representatives of the Peace Council and the Taliban and the factions were here, and the president was involved via video link," Dacic told TV Pink.

Dacic added that great powers, when they saw that, said that they would do it in Doha.

"We've seen the result of their negotiations, including those organized by Moscow and Washington," said Dacic and stressed that the atmosphere during the talks in Belgrade was fair, and that the joint assessment was that progress had been made, and a truce was declared.

He assessed that it cannot be said that the American intervention was successful, because everything is back to square one.

He added that it was clear from the beginning that a puppet regime had been installed in Afghanistan.

"From Serbia's standpoint, that puppet regime was among the first five countries to recognize Kosovo. What do Afghanistan and Kosovo have to do with each other - nothing, just like Costa Rica and Kosovo, but these are countries under US domination for whom this was their homework," Dacic said and added that Serbia was also ready to participate in peacekeeping missions under the auspices of the UN.

Dacic assessed that the events in Afghanistan represent a big slap in the face of the West, whose representatives did not expect something like this to happen.

He recalled that Afghanistan is a complicated story that goes much deeper than the US intervention, to the Russian one, and neither have succeeded.

He assessed that the goal now is to form a government and to respect human rights, especially those of women, which is one of the demands of the UN in order to form a transitional government the organization would participate in.

Commenting on a wave of refugees coming from Afghanistan, Dacic said that these are people who worked with US officials and are worried about their families and their position after the Taliban came to power.

"America is looking for a territory where they could come without big consequences, Hungarians, Austrians... are not very keen, so they are looking at countries like North Macedonia and there will be others who will accept them (Afghan refugees)," said Dacic.

Dacic added that production of narcotics in Afghanistan has increased, as much as 100 times when it comes to heroin, since the arrival of NATO forces.

(Telegraf.rs)