Eased the administration of President Barack Obama's proposal whereby the movement of Taliban detainees in the Guantanamo military prison for the release of U.S. soldiers captured by the Afghan Taliban allies in Pakistan, and that in an effort to revive peace talks in Afghanistan.
Informed sources said that the amended proposal represents a waiver of the U.S. offer the previous change chronology for the transfer of five senior figures in the Taliban have been held for years at Guantanamo Bay to Qatar.
The U.S. officials hope the agreement leads the exchange of prisoners, which put forward as a gesture of goodwill during the initial discussions between the U.S. negotiators and officials of the Taliban to open the way for peace talks between the militants and the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
The sources said that the amended proposal provides for sending each of the five Taliban prisoners to Qatar first and then release the Taliban prisoners Sergeant Bo Bergdal the only American in the war.
The U.S. officials suggested by the division of Taliban prisoners into two groups and that the prisoner is released before the U.S. release of the second group of Taliban prisoners in and out of Guantanamo.
Bergdal and who is now 26-year-old disappeared from his base in southern Afghanistan in June 2009 and believed to be Taliban militants holding him in the north-west Pakistan.
The White House U.S. soldier and the family of the U.S. to comment on the agreement rate.
The sources said that the exchange of prisoners amended plan were discussed with officials in Qatar during a visit in mid-June, Marc Grossman, U.S. special representative of President in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Qatar, which has played host to a number of Taliban officials play a pivotal role in nearly two years of secret exploratory talks between U.S. officials and representatives of the Taliban movement, which still considers the opponent in Afghanistan.
The Obama administration hopes that this process leads to concrete talks on the future of Afghanistan as the Taliban leadership is planning to open an office in Qatar has a political official. But the Taliban announced in March its withdrawal from the talks, saying the negotiating position of the United States is consistent. Now U.S. officials are cautiously trying to pave the way for the resumption of the talks. Reuters was the first to publish a report in December about the proposed prisoner exchange agreement.
And U.S. officials confirm that any process for the exchange of prisoners will be under U.S. law, which requires notification of Congress before the first transfer of any prisoners from Guantanamo.
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