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Norwegian PM briefs UN on Taliban talks
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Norway's Prime Minister briefed the United Nations Security Council Wednesday on three days of talks between the Taliban, Western diplomats and other delegates on humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and human rights that wrapped up Tuesday in Norway. "It was not a bilateral visit in the traditional sense," Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store said. "The purpose was to offer a most needed opportunity for non-Taliban women and men from the Afghan civil society to engage the Taliban in a dialog on the way forward for Afghanistan." The closed-door meetings in the snow-capped mountains above the Norwegian capital of Oslo came at a crucial time for Afghanistan, as freezing temperatures are compounding the misery from the country's downward economic spiral after the fall of the U.S.-backed government and the Taliban takeover last summer.
