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Peace talks postponed as Taliban objects to size of Afghan delegation
KABUL (Reuters) - A meeting between the Taliban and Afghan politicians and civil society aimed at ending more than 17 years of war in Afghanistan has been postponed, officials and diplomats said on Thursday, citing Taliban objections to the size of the Afghan delegation.
The talks were set to begin on Friday in Doha, but a senior government official in Kabul said “the gathering has been called off for now and details were being reworked.”
Afghan delegates scheduled to fly to the Qatari capital on Thursday were told the trip was postponed and new dates were being discussed, a western diplomat in Kabul said.
“The government will have to change the composition of the delegation to make this meeting happen,” the diplomat said on condition of anonymity.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said leaders of the hardline Islamist group were uncomfortable with the size of the Afghan delegation and its composition.
“Presence of some participants was completely against the list of what was agreed upon,” Mujahid told Reuters over phone, adding that the delegation included Afghans working for the government.
The Taliban have repeatedly refused to meet President Ashraf Ghani’s government, which they call a puppet regime, but have held several rounds of peace talks with U.S. officials.
Ghani said Wednesday the 250-member Afghan delegation included some government officials attending in a personal capacity. But the group did not include some of the most powerful figures in Afghan politics, who are reluctant to join forces with Ghani ahead of presidential elections due in September.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-taliban/peace-talks-postponed-as-taliban-objects-to-size-of-afghan-delegation-idUSKCN1RU0W2
(what's next? the table clothe's will be the wrong size or color?)
morning thistle. they were pretty bad last night-mags just couldn't stay quiet.
>Much Love
same to you. Been a great ride!
>Danny Casolaro is who got me into it a long time ago.
Gary Webb as well. That was a local paper for me at the time. All that shit with the octopus, wackenhut etc.
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Goldman Sachs : Shuffles Private-Equity Executives
Rich Friedman, one of Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s longest-serving partners and head of its private-equity arm, is stepping back as part of a reorganization of the firm's alternative-investing businesses, according to people familiar with the matter.
Mr. Friedman, who joined Goldman in 1981 and was named a partner in 1990, will relinquish day-to-day oversight of the merchant bank, where Goldman does most of its private-equity investing, the people said. He will hand it over to Sumit Rajpal, who currently oversees corporate-buyouts funds, and Andrew Wolff, based in London, the people said.
Chief Executive David Solomon has ordered a review of Goldman's alternatives-investing business, which comprises more than $100 billion in assets and is scattered in various pockets across the firm. Built over decades of ad hoc planning and guarded jealously by their owners, their results are commingled in an "investing and lending" reporting segment that shareholders tend to dismiss as opaque and unpredictable.
The Wall Street Journal reported last month that Goldman was considering combining the two largest of those businesses – the merchant bank, run by Mr. Friedman, and a special-situations group run by Julian Salisbury – to create a more focused unit similar to a smaller KKR & Co. or Blackstone Group LP that shareholders could better understand and might value more richly.
It also plans to raise new private-equity funds that it can charge fees to manage, and over time invest less of its own cash directly into deals.
(yes continue the trend of offloading liability to your client base-faggots!)
As part of the reshuffling, Mr. Salisbury will gain new oversight for broader real-estate investing across the firm, the people said. Real estate is a hot asset class and postcrisis rules that limited banks' ability to do private-equity investing are laxer there.
DSJ via
https://www.marketscreener.com/GOLDMAN-SACHS-GROUP-12831/news/Goldman-Sachs-Shuffles-Private-Equity-Executives-Sources-28446996/
yes noticed that too