A statement issued by the American embassy in Delhi on US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad's two day India visit, said, "Ambassador Khalilzad and his counterparts also discussed that Afghanistan’s political future is for Afghans to decide through an inclusive and legitimate process."
US has said that it will consult New Delhi as the Afghan peace process goes forward even as it called for "inclusive and legitimate process" that preserves the gains made in the last 18 years.
A statement issued by the American embassy in Delhi on US special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad's two day India visit, said, "Ambassador Khalilzad and his counterparts also discussed that Afghanistan’s political future is for Afghans to decide through an inclusive and legitimate process."
During his visit, 2nd in 2019 to Delhi, he met, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale & India’s Ambassador to Afghanistan Vinay Kumar.
The statement said during the meet they "agreed that Afghan gains of the last 18 years must be preserved and built upon."
This is an important development for New Delhi since it is not in favour of an interim administration to replace the political structure arrived in the last 18 years. This was conveyed during Foreign Secretary Vijay Gokhale's US visit in March during which he met Zalmay Khalilzad in Washington.
Taliban during its talks with US has been calling for an interim administration in Kabul which will replace the existing govt, something India is against as it back Afghan President Ghani's govt.
Washington also "recognized the many important contributions India has made to Afghanistan’s development." This development comes months after US President Donald Trump took a jibe against development aid to Afghanistan. US President in the 1st cabinet meet of the year in January had said even though he gets "along very well with India and Prime Minister Modi", PM Modi "is constantly telling me, he built a library in Afghanistan" but Trump "Don’t know who’s using it (the library) in Afghanistan".
India has built large scale infrastructure projects in Afghanistan like Parliament building in Kabul, Salma Dam in Herat to Capacity Building by providing training to 3500 afghans to connectivity by Chabahar project and India Afghanistan air corridor.
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