Recent Violence Dampens Hopes for Peace: UN Official
A senior UN official in Kabul says that the rise in fighting has reduced hopes for peace talks and that the Afghan government and the Taliban should return to the table of negotiations and end the unprecedented violence.
Lisa Reefke, Senior Political Affairs Officer at the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), said that there is a need for international and regional consensus on Afghan peace to achieve results from it.
“The start of the Afghan peace negotiations in September last year generated hopes that talks will create space for Afghans to come together and negotiate a path to peace,” she said at a gathering of women in Kabul. “Today, action on the battlefield seems to compete with the peace negotiations in Doha.”
Recent Violence Dampens Hopes for Peace: UN Official
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Biography
Rafael, a national of Spain, has served in the United Nations for more than 15 years in different duty stations, with wide-ranging experience at the intersection of peace and security, and has a background in diplomacy, inter-agency coordination, the environment, and sustainable development.
Rafael joined UNEP in May of 2018 as Deputy Chief of Staff then served as Acting Chief of Staff since January 2019 until he was appointed as Chief of Staff in April 2021.
Prior to joining UNEP, Rafael served as a Senior Political Affairs Officer at the Department of Peacekeeping Operations in New York where he worked in support of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic. Previously, he served as a Political Affairs Officer in New York working on Haiti, Somalia and other dossiers. He also served in Dakar working on regional issues, as well as in Port-au-Prince after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. Before joining the United Nat