Prospects Of Talks With The Taliban -- An Interview With Francesc Vendrell

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‘A Complicated Picture’ -- Newsweek

Talking to the Taliban is not as simple as it sounds

Few Westerners know Afghanistan and the tough business of negotiating with Afghans as well as Spanish-born diplomat Francesc Vendrell. A veteran United Nations negotiator who brokered peace talks in Central America and East Timor, he worked as the U.N.'s mediator on Afghanistan in 2000, and as the U.N.'s Special Representative in Kabul after the Taliban's collapse in late 2001. From 2002 until this summer he served in Kabul as the European Union's Special Representative. As some form of peace talks with the Afghan insurgency seems increasingly likely in the future, Vendrell, 68, who is now teaching at Princeton University, talked by phone to NEWSWEEK's Ron Moreau about the prospective negotiations. Excerpts:

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