The Taliban has not been invited to a United Nations-organised conference on Afghanistan in Doha, with the Afghan group governing the south Asian country saying that the two-day meeting would be “ineffective” without its participation.
Envoys from the United States, China and Russia, as well as major European aid donors and key neighbours such as Pakistan, are among the representatives from about 25 countries and groups called to the two days of closed-door talks by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in the Qatari Capital.