Karzai: Afghanistan owns peace process KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that his country is in charge of peace talks with the Taliban even though he is willing to meet with a U.S. envoy. Karzai and Marc Grossman, a U.S. envoy who has been involved in secret negotiations with the Taliban for the past year, met Saturday in Kabul and were scheduled to talk again Sunday, CNN reported. "The Afghan nation is the owner of the peace process and any peace talks," Karzai said. No other country or organization has the right to deprive the Afghan nation to this right. Afghanistan is not a place for foreigners to do their political experiments or a laboratory that every few years they test a new political system. Neither Grossman nor Karzai released substantive details about the talks. "The United States stands ready to assist in any way we can an Afghan-led reconciliation process to find a peaceful end to this conflict," Grossman said in a statement. I look forward to calling on President Karzai and discussing next steps.