The two parties agreed to continue their talks during this, their first face-to-face encounter in more than three months, according to a Taliban statement released following the meeting.
The Taliban government is not recognised by the US, and a US official earlier this week cautioned against interpreting the Doha negotiations as a diplomatic acknowledgment of Kabul’s current leaders.
Amir Khan Muttaqi, the Taliban’s foreign minister, and Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West led their respective delegations to the conference. After the meeting, Muttaqi’s spokesman Abdul Qahar Balkhi said on Twitter that a US Treasury Representative had also been there and had spoken about their meetings with “the US Justice Department and other legal experts on frozen Afghan assets.”
