Both sides agreed to maintain communication on key issues, particularly the detainees held in the US and Afghanistan.
“Adam Boehler, referring to the issue of detained citizens between Afghanistan and the United States, said that both countries will exchange prisoners,” Afghanistan’s deputy prime minister Abdul Ghani Baradar’s office said after their meeting.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio stopped short of confirming an exchange would take place, saying Boehler had gone to Kabul to “explore what’s possible”.
“Our special envoy for people unlawfully detained has been having conversations for a while”, Rubio told reporters as he headed to the Middle East.
“Obviously, it’ll be the president’s decision in terms of any trades or any exchanges, but we most certainly want any Americans or anyone who’s being unlawfully detained to be released. And so he went there to explore what that would look like.”
