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Taliban officials attended a rare, United Nations-led conference of global envoys to Afghanistan on Sunday, the first such meeting Taliban representatives have agreed to engage in, after organizers said Afghan women would be excluded from the talks.<\/p>\n

The two-day conference in Doha, Qatar, is the third of its kind. It is part of a United Nations-led effort, known as the \u201cDoha process,\u201d started in May 2023. It is meant to develop a unified approach for international engagement with Afghanistan. Envoys from around 25 countries and regional organizations, including the European Union, the United States, Russia and China, are attending. <\/p>\n

Taliban officials were not invited to the first meeting and refused to attend<\/a> the second meeting, held in February, after objecting to the inclusion of Afghan civil society groups that attended.<\/p>\n

The conference has drawn a fierce backlash in recent days after U.N. officials announced that Afghan women would not participate in discussions with Taliban officials. Human rights groups and Afghan women\u2019s groups have slammed the decision to exclude them as too severe a concession by the U.N. to persuade the Taliban to engage in the talks. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n