Washington: Zalmay Khalilzad, Messenger of US veterans for months Hotel-Ballroom diplomacy helped end the US war in Afghanistan but failed to prevent the Taliban takeover, resigned on Monday.
In a letter to the State Secretary Antony Blinken, Khalilzad defended his record but admitted that he appeared short and said he wanted to make a way during the “new phase of our Afghan policy.” “The political arrangements between the Afghan government and the Taliban are not advanced as expected,” he wrote.
“The reason for this is too complex and I will share my mind on the coming day and week.” Born in Afghanistan, the 70-year-old academic dapper changed our diplomat taking senior position under former President George W.
Bush, became the US Ambassador to Kabul and then Baghdad and the United Nations.
As former President Donald Trump itchy to end the longest American war in Afghanistan, he brought back Khalilzad, who led the conversation complete with the Taliban – without entering the US-supported government in Kabul.
The conversation caused the February 2020 agreement where US forces will depart the following year.
But peace negotiations between the Taliban and leadership in Kabul failed to get traction, and the government that the United States was built more than 20 years destroyed in a few days when US troops left.
Khalilzad, apart from the affiliate of the Republic, was guarded when Democrat President Joe Biden beat Trump and decided to continue withdrawal.
Khalilzad immediately became a flash stick for criticism, with even his superiors in the Biden government – while voicing respecting him personally – blaming the diplomacy behind the 2020 agreement.
Blinken said that the representative of Khalilzad, Thomas West, would take over as a special envoy.
West is a veteran assistant to President Joe Biden, serving his staff when he is vice president.
The West has worked for years in South Asian policy including US-Indian civil nuclear agreement.
Khalilzad also spilled us enemies of China and Russia, managed to achieve a public statement where countries would show the unity fronts.
Shortly before the resignation of Khalilzad became public, the State Department said the United States would not be able to attend a new session called Tuesday by Russia which also included China and Pakistan, historically the main supporters of the Taliban.
Duram in the language and customs of Afghanistan, Khalilzad was a rare US diplomat that was able to develop friendly relations with the enemy Taliban that the regime had been overthrown after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
After Trump ended the US opposition to talk to the Taliban, Khalilzad engineered the release of Pakistan prison from CO -Founder Mullah Baradar group, it is seen as a figure who can fulfill the promise, and spend months with most rural rebels in a luxury hotel.
in Qatarn Capital Doha.
But the pictures of him smiled with the Taliban made him heat criticism in Kabul where some in the government have fallen and Western-oriented social media users form it and accused him of selling Afghanistan.
In an interview last month, Khalilzad said that he had reached an agreement with the Taliban where Islamic rebels would remain in Kabul and negotiate political transitions.
But Khalilzad said that the agreement collapsed when President Ashraf Ghani escaped from the country and the Taliban saw a clean security room.
Speaking to foreign policy, Khalilzad said that the Taliban fulfilled the important parts of the February 2020 agreement including not attacking US troops departing.
“I respect those who say that we should not negotiate with Talib without the government to be there.
But we don’t know how many battles will be taken for the Talib to approve it,” he said.
But without taste in the United States for waves of other forces in the longest war, “every year we lose land for Talib,” he said.
“Time is not on our side.”