US calls UN to vote today on Taliban deal
Afghan security officials man a check point in the Behsood district of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, on March 4, 2020. Violence has surged in Afghanistan just days after the US signed a peace agreement was the Taliban. – EPA pic, March 10, 2020.
THE United States has called for a vote today at the UN Security Council to endorse Washington’s deal with the Taliban that was meant to pave the way to peace in Afghanistan, diplomats said. The US military has begun withdrawing troops as part of the pullout agreed in the February 29 agreement with the Taliban.
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