Kai Eide, the United Nations special representative in Afghanistan met with a group of Taliban leaders leading up to this week's international conference in London. President Hamid Karzai invited the Taliban to enter peach talks. Most of the important details of the meeting are unknown but this meeting is a small start to one day coming to some politcal settlement. There is also a plan to offer jobs and security from Afghan officials and Amercian commanders to the Taliban fighters in exchange for giving up insurgency. This week the United Nations Security Council decided to list sanctions on five former officials in the Taliban, one of which was a former foregin minister for the Taliban regime who know lives in Kabul and often acts as a mediator between the Afghan government and the Taliban.
By Alicia Panczyk
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