Khalilzad tweeted: “Yesterday, the UNSC condemned the Taliban’s declaration of a spring offensive. We welcome the international community speaking in unison on this point.”
“As the UN statement also makes evident, it’s long past time for the war and violence to end, a ceasefire to be put in place, and dialogue and negotiations to begin,” he said..
For any party to oppose these objectives is to be on the wrong side of history, wrote the top diplomat, who heads the US . . .









