WASHINGTON — Tempering expectations, the Trump administration’s peace envoy for Afghanistan said Friday that although his talks with the Taliban have produced a tentative “framework” agreement, negotiations are far from finished.
The envoy, Zalmay Khalilzad, said he hopes a final deal is clinched before Afghanistan’s presidential election in July. But he also stressed that many issues remain to be resolved and that it must be a package deal.
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