Us refuses to recognize Taliban after Doha talks

Original title: the United States refuses to recognize the Taliban after the Doha talks
An inter departmental delegation of the US government met with the high representative of the Taliban in Afghanistan from 9 to 10 in Doha, the capital of Qatar. This is the first meeting between the two sides since the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan at the end of August. The US side commented that the discussions between the two sides were "frank and professional". The Arab side said that "the meeting made good progress" and "the meeting between the two sides was Frank".
Interested in "humanitarian assistance"
The United States and the Taliban issued separate statements after the talks. The Taliban said the talks "went smoothly" and the United States agreed to provide humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, but still refused to recognize the Taliban as the legitimate regime of Afghanistan.
Taliban spokesman suhaile Shahin told the associated press that the Acting Foreign Minister of the Afghan interim government Amir Khan Mottaki told the United States during the talks that the Taliban will try to ensure that Afghan territory is not used by extremist organizations to launch attacks on the United States and other countries.
This is one of the key demands of the US side in the talks. US State Department spokesman ned Price issued a brief statement on the 10th, calling the talks "frank and professional", but reiterating that the US judgment on the Taliban will be based on the latter's actual actions, not just its position.
The statement said: "the United States delegation focuses on security and counter-terrorism issues, as well as the safe evacuation of the United States and other foreign citizens and Afghan partners cooperating with the United States, as well as human rights issues, including women's substantive participation in all areas of Afghan social life."
The US side's position on aid to Afghanistan was relatively vague. It only said that the two sides discussed the issue of humanitarian assistance, without mentioning whether the two sides had reached an agreement on it.
During the talks, the United States pressured the Taliban to allow foreign personnel such as the United States to evacuate Afghanistan safely. The Taliban said in a statement that it would help foreign citizens withdraw "under certain principles".
On the 11th, foreign ministry spokesman balsi of the Afghan interim government said on social media that the United States said it would provide humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan and facilitate the delivery of aid materials by other humanitarian organizations. The Afghan interim government welcomed this. The Afghan interim government also stressed that the best way to solve the problem is to fully implement the "peace agreement" reached between the Taliban and the United States in Doha in February 2020, and the issue of humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan should not be linked to political issues.
Barshi also said that if necessary, such talks will continue with the United States in the future.
Difficult to be a "counter-terrorism partner"
The Doha talks are the first direct talks between the two sides since the Taliban took over Afghanistan in August and the hasty withdrawal of foreign troops led by the US military. Some US officials told Reuters that the talks were "pragmatic contacts".
There have been a number of attacks in Afghanistan recently, including a suicide bomb attack against Shiite Muslims on the 8th, killing at least 46 people. The extremist organization "Islamic state" branch "Islamic state huloshan" and "claim" have attacked many times recently.
The Taliban promised not to allow Afghan territory to become a base for extremist organizations to launch attacks, but said it would not cooperate with the United States to combat extremist organizations in Afghanistan. Before the talks began on the 9th, when the US media asked whether the Taliban would cooperate with the United States to combat the "Islamic state", Shahin made clear the Taliban's position: "we have the ability to deal with it independently."
Bill Rojo, a senior researcher at a conservative think tank in Washington, told the associated press that the Taliban do not want and do not need the assistance of the United States in curbing the Afghan branch of the "Islamic state". "(the Taliban) in order to drive away the war that the United States has fought for 20 years, the last thing they want is for the United States to come back, and it does not need the help of the United States."
On the other hand, Luo Jiao believes that the United States cannot really trust the Taliban. Before al Qaeda launched the "9.11" terrorist attack on the United States, the Taliban provided shelter to Al Qaeda and its leader bin Laden. The United States launched the war in Afghanistan and overthrew the Taliban regime in 2001. Now that the Taliban are back in power, the United States is unlikely to see it as a "reliable counter-terrorism partner".
Refuse to recognize the legitimacy of the regime
On the 10th, the Afghan Dawn News Network quoted Afghan interim government spokesman mujahid as saying that representatives of the Afghan interim government and the United States discussed the issue of international recognition of the Afghan government in Doha. An unnamed spokesman for the US State Department said on the 8th that the negotiations "are not to recognize the legitimacy of the Taliban regime".
Michael kugelman, an expert on Afghanistan at the Wilson Center, an American think tank, believes that the topics of the talks between the United States and the Taliban can be discussed by telephone, but the United States has sent a high-level delegation to Doha to interview the Taliban, which reflects the importance the United States attaches to these topics, It also brings some legitimacy to the Taliban, a regime that the United States does not intend to recognize.
The United States launched the war in Afghanistan in the name of counter-terrorism in October 2001. US President Biden said in July that the US military mission in Afghanistan would end on August 31. On August 15, the Taliban entered and controlled Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. On the evening of August 30, the last US military withdrew from Afghanistan, ending the 20-year war in Afghanistan. The Taliban announced the formation of an interim government on September 7.
According to Xinhua News Agency