The former British Foreign Secretary, David Miliband, has emphasized on the danger the Afghanistan war, a forgotten conflict, would bring to the world.

Miliband said it was “very important that we recognized the importance of the current moment in Afghanistan.”
“The American surge has taken place, but without a political framework, a political settlement, then we are going to be getting closer to the end date of 2014, but without an endgame and I think that is dangerous.”
Miliband said a political solution needs to be found prior to the withdrawal of the U.S. and UK troops in 2014. He also said there should be a serious negotiation with Taliban.
Since 2001, when the operations started in Afghanistan, over 300 service members have died. Colour Sergeant Alan Cameron, 42, was one of 1st Battalion Scots Guards who was killed by a roadside bomb in north of Lashkar Gah.
He suggested that the UN appoint a mediator to talk to all sides of the conflict, including the Taliban and other Afghan groups.
“The truth is that the Taliban wants to know the position of the Western powers and until the Western powers, led by the U.S. and the UK, set out our position on the endgame, about the presence of foreign forces, about political settlement in Afghanistan, we are not going to get a political process of real weight and drive,” he said.
Miliband, a Labour MP, is to have a speech at MIT in the U.S. over the political settle in Afghanistan. He believes there needs to be an urgent action before 2014.
It is said that Miliband himself would negotiate with Taliban and would offer concessions such as prisoner releases to bring them for holding a talk.
(Source: Press TV)
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