DPPA
Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs

Security Council Press Statement on Afghanistan

  • 27 August 2018

NEW YORK - The members of the Security Council welcomed the announcement by the Government of Afghanistan on 19 August of a second conditional ceasefire with the Taliban from the start of the Eid al-Adha holiday.

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