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US thanks Qatar for Taliban talks on hostages

20 March

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United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio thanked Qatar on Thursday for mediating negotiations with the Taliban over the release of George Glezmann, a US citizen who spent over two years in detention. He went on to praise Qatar as always being a "reliable" and "trusted" partner.

"Today, after two and a half years of captivity in Afghanistan, Delta Airlines mechanic George Glezmann is on his way to be reunited with his wife, Aleksandra. George joins American Ryan Corbett and William McKenty, who were released from Afghanistan on the night of President [Donald] Trump's inauguration and returned home to their families," Rubio noted in a statement.

Today's release is a "positive and constructive step," the US official went on to say, adding that the Trump administration will continue to work on freeing all Americans "unjustly detained around the world."

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