Special representative for afghanistan reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad testified before the over house on National Security about the Trump Administrations afghanistan policy. He answered questions about the recent u. S. Taliban agreement and plans to reduce the u. S. Military presence in afghanistan. Good morning. The turning of the subcommittee will now come to order. I want to welcome everyone to todays hybrid hearing. Pursuant to the house rules, some members will appear in person and others will appear remotely via web acts. Since some members are appearing in person, let me first remind everyone that pursuant to the latest guidance from the house attending physicians office, all individuals intending this hearing in person must wear a face mask. Members who choose not to wear a face mask will not be recognized. Let me also make a few reminders for those members appearing in person. You will only see members and witnesses appearing remotely on the monitor in front of you when they
A host will spare no efforts to support the initiative along with help from the International Community. So historic talks aimed at ending decades of war and misery in afghanistan are finally taking place here in qatar this saturday negotiators from the Afghan Government and the taliban amazing along with the u. S. Secretary of state mike pompei oh and the Qatari Foreign minister more than 6 months it is now since the u. S. Brokered its own deal aimed at ending americas longest war that agreement with the taliban paved the way for saturdays discussions for those we want all the people of afghanistan to be reunited under one roof again after more than 42 years of upheavals aggressions jihad and resistance all the negatives we all know what happened to us throughout these years and maybe stand today we now need to address this unique opportunity to move towards a new future. We can define together we continue the afghan peace negotiation and we try. For peace and quality we will pave the
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