Afghanistan will have lasting peace only if there is intra-Afghan negotiations, an Afghan-owned and Afghan-led process, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday.
Stoltenberg said that the US-Taliban agreement was first very important step towards lasting peace in Afghanistan.
He said that NATO supports Afghan-led peace process and the “best way we can do that is to continue to train and help the Afghan security forces so they can create peace and stability in their own country themselves.”
He said that over the last years, NATO has focused on enabling the Afghans to fight the terrorism themselves and to stabilise their own country.
“There are many problems, many reasons to be concerned about the situation in Afghanistan, but there is a huge achievement that we now have a strong Afghan security force which is able to fight terrorism themselves,” Stoltenberg said.
