{"id":117623,"date":"2019-09-30T21:57:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T21:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/09\/30\/afghanistan-to-taliban-peace-or-we-will-continue-to-fight\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T20:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T20:39:17","slug":"afghanistan-to-taliban-peace-or-we-will-continue-to-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/flashpoints\/2019\/09\/30\/afghanistan-to-taliban-peace-or-we-will-continue-to-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan to Taliban: Peace or \u2018we will continue to fight\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UNITED NATIONS \u2014 As Afghans await the results of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2019\/09\/26\/afghans-face-presidential-vote-amid-violence-corruption\/\" target=_blank>presidential election roiled by Taliban threats<\/a>, the government used its platform at the U.N. General Assembly on Monday to tell the insurgents: \u201cJoin us in peace, or we will continue to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Afghanistan was not the only country sending a message: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2019\/09\/30\/north-korea-complains-at-un-about-us-provocations\/\" target=_blank>North Korea had one for the United States<\/a>, saying it was up to Washington whether now-stalled nuclear negotiations \u201cbecome a window of opportunity or an occasion that will hasten the crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And even in the final hour of this year\u2019s U.N. gathering of world leaders, Iran and Saudi Arabia traded barbs sharpened by a recent missile and drone strike on major Saudi oil facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monday\u2019s speeches wrapped up a meeting marked by global worries over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2019\/09\/25\/iran-president-warns-of-a-region-on-the-edge-of-collapse\/\" target=_blank>rising tensions in the Persian Gulf region<\/a>, the changing climate and the very future of the idea of large-scale international cooperation that the U.N. represents.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/09\/24\/at-un-trump-attacks-globalism-and-urges-pressure-on-iran\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP19267527810693.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Trump attacks globalism and urges pressure on Iran at UN<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">President Donald Trump stood before world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday and rejected \u201cglobalism\u201d and liberal immigration policies while exhorting the world to act against Iran\u2019s \u201cbloodlust.\u201d His speech and subsequent meetings had to compete with news from Washington that the House is moving forward with an impeachment inquiry.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As General Assembly President Tijjani Muhammad-Bande put it in his closing remarks, \u201cThe world will not survive for long unless we cultivate the give-and-take spirit\u201d of multilateralism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Afghanistan\u2019s national security adviser, Hamdullah Mohib, spoke two days after his countrymen voted in a presidential election in which hundreds of polling centers weren\u2019t opened because the country couldn\u2019t secure them against the Taliban. The militants control or hold sway over roughly half the country and warned voters not to go to the polls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Results of the elections aren\u2019t due for weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mohib trumpeted the democratic commitment of Afghans who voted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2019\/09\/15\/top-us-general-for-nato-violence-will-rise-before-afghans-vote-on-new-president\/\" target=_blank>despite the threats<\/a> \u2014 some despite having had fingers cut off by the Taliban during prior elections, he noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a country where a new generation of leaders has grown up in wartime, \u201cthe opportunities afforded to us through the gains of the past 20 years have allowed us to change hope into something much more powerful \u2014 belief,\u201d Mobib said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe believe in our abilities to bring about the peace we have hoped for all our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"1000\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP19273541963372.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Afghanistan's National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib\" class=\"wp-image-104175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP19273541963372.jpg.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP19273541963372.jpg.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP19273541963372.jpg.jpg?resize=768,512 768w, https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP19273541963372.jpg.jpg?resize=1024,683 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Afghanistan&#8217;s National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib addresses the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Monday, Sept. 30, 2019. (Richard Drew\/AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The path is far from clear. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/09\/09\/us-troop-reduction-in-afghanistan-unclear-as-trump-says-peace-talks-with-taliban-are-now-dead\/\" target=_blank>U.S.-Taliban peace talks collapsed<\/a> earlier this month as a deal seemed imminent to end America\u2019s longest war. It began in 2001 as a U.S. effort to dislodge Afghanistan\u2019s then-ruling Taliban for harboring al-Qaida leader and 9\/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Afghan government had been sidelined in the talks; the Taliban refused to talk directly with an administration the insurgents see as a U.S. puppet.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/09\/12\/taliban-wanted-a-deal-with-the-us-but-negotiators-leadership-at-odds-even-before-camp-david-meeting-called-off\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP19181327646251.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Taliban wanted a deal with the US, but negotiators, leadership at odds even before Camp David meeting called off<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Afghanistan\u2019s Taliban leaders agreed they wanted a deal with the United States, but some were in more of a hurry than others.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For North Korea, two summits with the U.S. haven\u2019t yielded a definitive plan for ending the North\u2019s nuclear program and the sanctions imposed because of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Negotiations have apparently been frozen since a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un broke down in February, though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/your-military\/2019\/06\/30\/trump-making-history-steps-into-north-korea\/\" target=\"_blank\">the two met in June at the Korean border<\/a> in an effort to spur progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe situation on the Korean Peninsula has not come out of the vicious cycle of increased tension, which is entirely attributable to the political and military provocations perpetrated by the U.S.,\u201d North Korean Ambassador Kim Song said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North Korea complains that the U.S. has boosted sanctions and resumed U.S.-South Korean military drills that Pyongyang has long decried.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the same time, the North has continued conducting banned weapons tests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump said last week that another summit meeting with Kim <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/09\/23\/trump-says-fourth-meeting-with-kim-jong-un-could-happen-soon\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201ccould happen soon\u201d<\/a> but didn\u2019t elaborate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran and Saudi Arabia took their turns at the podium last week, but a series of bitter rebuttals Monday made clear that airing grievances hadn\u2019t eased them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Saudi Arabia, the U.S., Britain, France and Germany blame Iran for the Sept. 14 attack that hit key Saudi oil facilities and rattled world oil markets. Iran denies involvement and says Yemen\u2019s Iran-allied Houthi rebels were responsible, as they have claimed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iranian U.N. Mission diplomat Khodadad Seifi complained Monday about what he called \u201cunsubstantiated allegations and careless remarks\u201d from the Saudis, while Saudi mission diplomat Mohammed Al Assiri said Iran was traveling a \u201cpathway of hate\u201d in the Persian Gulf region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Presidents, prime ministers, monarchs and other leaders from 192 of the U.N.&#8217;s 193 member states \u2014 all except Uzbekistan \u2014 said their piece at the General Assembly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And young activists had their say at climate summits in the days beforehand. In one of the week\u2019s most remarked-upon moments, Swedish 16-year-old Greta Thunberg rebuked world leaders for not doing more to tackle global warming. \u201cHow dare you?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cLet me assure you youth: We hear you!\u201d Muhammad-Bande said Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>Associated Press writers Maria Sanminiatelli and Edith M. Lederer contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Afghans await the results of a presidential election roiled by Taliban threats, the government used its platform at the U.N. 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