Tripartite Forum to be Legal Umbrella

The tripartite forum in Jakarta in mid-March could be a legal umbrella for the Muslim clerics to push all government and non-government factions involved in conflict in Afghanistan towards peace.

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Vice President Jusuf Kalla (third right), accompanied by Foreign Minister Retno LP Marsudi (left) ahead of the second Kabul Peace Conference at Haram Sharai on Wednesday (28/2).

KABUL, KOMPAS – Vice President Jusuf Kalla said the tripartite forum of an ulema committee formed of three states (Afghanistan, Pakistani and Indonesian) in Jakarta in mid-March could be a legal umbrella for the Muslim clerics to push all government and non-government factions involved in conflict in Afghanistan towards peace.

“I believe [the Tripartite Forum] in Jakarta would be a legal umbrella for the Afghan clerics and government to push for peace and reconciliation,” Kalla told reporters at Kabul’s Haram Sharai Palace on Thursday morning (1/3), at the end of his three-day working visit to Afghanistan.