The United States has withdrawn negotiators from Pakistan after talks failed to produce an agreement on reopening Nato supply routes into Afghanistan, the Pentagon said Monday.
“The decision was reached to bring the team home for a short period of time,” Pentagon spokesman George Little told reporters.
The team of negotiators had been in Pakistan for about six weeks, he said, as US officials had believed they were close to a deal with Islamabad to lift the blockade on Nato convoys.
But no breakthrough was imminent and there was no scheduled time for a resumption of the negotiations, Little said.
“I believe that some of the team left over the weekend and the remainder of the team will leave shortly,” said the spokesman. “This was a US decision.” |