Ashraf GhaniVarmennettu tili

......as our hopes that an icon of human rights would choose principle over power.

If the UN is to be relevant to countries like mine, it must deliver as One UN. But this has not yet been fulfilled.

We have borne adversity, deprivation and drought with dignity; met invasion with valor; defended our homeland with patriotic fervor.

With President Trump’s recent announcement of his strategy to counter terror and stabilize South Asia,

Afghanistan’s enduring partnership with the United States and the international community has been renewed and redirected.

We welcome this strategy, which has now set us on a pathway to certainty.

Only through political settlement can we achieve enduring peace and I call upon all ranks of Taliban to engage in intra-Afghan dialogue.

For too long, the conflict in #AFG has been viewed through the prism of civil war. But this war is not within our soil, it is over our soil.