Taliban FM Calls Meeting With US Representatives Highly Positive

Muttaqi added that during negotiations between the two sides, the Taliban emphasised on "Washington's respect for Afghanistan's sovereignty".

According to Al Jazeera, Muttaqi also stressed that the United States should lift sanctions on the Taliban.

On Wednesday, the Taliban’s foreign minister said that the group will not allow Afghanistan's soil to be used against other countries, including the United States.

"We want to solve the issue of foreign prisoners in Afghanistan in such a way that all parties are satisfied," said the Taliban's foreign minister.

On July 30 and 31, US Special Representative for Afghanistan Thomas West; Special Envoy for Afghan Women, Girls, and Human Rights Rina Amiri, and Chief of the US Mission to Afghanistan based in Doha Karen Decker, along with other US officials met and discussed issues of critical interest with senior Taliban representatives and the group’s technocrats in Doha.

During a meeting with the Taliban delegation in Doha, the US special representatives emphasised on the "immediate and unconditional" release of US citizens who had been detained in Afghanistan.

While asking for the release of detained American officials, the US envoys did not provide details about the number of Americans in detention under the Taliban in Afghanistan. However, earlier, the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken had referred to the detention of several US citizens by the Taliban and said that about 175 US citizens remained in Afghanistan, some of whom had entered the country after the fall of the Afghan government in August 2021.