the talks don't signal the recognition of the taliban in any way. officially. anti war activist brian beckett told us in his view, they clearly do the afghanistan government is insisting is that the united states not have the right or not to believe that it has the right to continually intervene into the air space or territory of afghanistan talks between the taliban lead government in afghanistan and the united states and other talks with the e u. r, constitutes a kind of defacto recognition that the taliban in fact are the government. the both the european countries and the united states have to make a choice. if they refuse to recognize the taliban government officially, if they continue to hold the seized assets of the afghan government, making it impossible for their government to meet basic needs of the people in afghanistan. i think it's very likely that the afghan government will seek to find new partners the united states does not legally have the right to take control of or sees the assets of afghanistan, simply because the u. s. occupied the country for 20 years. a developing story