No it said "the discussions, which one official described as "very preliminary," yielded no results." which is very different from "weren't willing to negotiate".
Maybe this bit will help.
"One of the main leaders of the network, Sirajuddin Haqqani, told the BBC in an interview published on Monday that the Haqqanis "have been contacted and are being contacted by intelligence agencies of many Islamic and non-Islamic countries, including the U.S., asking us to leave the sacred jihad and take an important part in the current government."
According to a high-level Afghan security official who was briefed on the talks, the discussions about what, if any, role members of the Haqqani network might play in an Afghan government ended fruitlessly.
"They didn't agree on several things, so the meetings were without any outcome," the Afghan official said. "That's why we are seeing now all these reactions and attacks going on."
South Asia specialists pointed to the highly compartmental nature of the political reconciliation talks to explain the seeming contradiction of some American officials' engaging with groups like the Taliban and the Haqqanis while many others condemn the Haqqanis' violence.
"There's a very small group dealing with reconciliation, and they've been open-minded about who they talk to," said Daniel S. Markey, senior fellow for India, Pakistan and South Asia at the Council on Foreign Relations. "By doing so, they're in conflict with others in the U.S. government who say the Haqqani network is beyond the pale." "
Seems more that certain people on the US side want to paint the opposition as "unwilling to negotiate" for their own ends, exactly as they're doing with the Palestinians, did with the Iraqis, and so on.
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