- publish: 23 February 2016
- time: 9:51 am
- category: Politics
- No: 3422
Security forces beef up security/ 4th quadrilateral talks held today
The 4th quadrilateral talks are going to be held within hours in Presidential Palace of Afghanistan with the security forces have beefed up their security measures.
The fourth round of the key four-nation talks which include Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States is expected to open in Kabul within hours, planed to work out to find a roadmap for bringing Taliban into negotiating table with Afghan government to find negotiated settlement to the lingering Afghan crisis.
Afghan officials are hopeful that the fourth round of the four-nation talks could set a date for holding direct dialogue between Afghan government and Taliban militants.
Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement that minister of foreign affairs Salahuddin Rabbani is to give an opening speech in the 4th rounds 4-nation talks.
The hardliner Taliban militants, however, have yet to express any green light to join the peace talks.