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The long wait

'Peace is the highest desire’ says Roya Rahmani, Afghanistan’s ambassador to the US.

The US and the Taliban are reportedly inching closer to a breakthrough in peace talks. But the Afghan government has been notably missing from these negotiations. Afghanistan's first female ambassador to the US, Roya Rahmani, says that the Afghan government's position regarding the talks is that ‘peace is the highest desire.’

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(Afghan Ambassador to the United States Roya Rahmani. Credit: Shirin Jaafari/The World)

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Mon 19 Aug 2019 08:32GMT

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