The talks on bilateral security agreement could take months, and are expected to be difficult. The thorniest issue is whether US soldiers in Afghanistan are given immunity from prosecution under Afghan law.
President Hamid Karzai has longed demanded that US soldiers be answerable to Afghan law, but the United States insists that its soldiers accused of crimes in Afghanistan are tried in America.
Underscoring the likely difficulty of talks, US military prosecutors are seeking death penalty for Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, accused of killing 16 Afghan villagers in a March massacre. The Afghan government wants Bales to be publicly tried in Afghanistan.
"Afghanistan wants a strategic pact with US but will seriously consider the red lines," said Aimal Faizi, Karzai's chief spokesman.
"The negotiation between the two countries are due to start today and the most important issue for Afghanistan is its national sovereignty and national interest," Faizi told Reuters.
The US delegation is headed by James B. Warlick, deputy special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Eklil Hakimi, Afghanistan's ambassador to the United States, leads the Afghan team in Kabul.
This year, the two countries signed a strategic agreement which provides a framework for a post-2014 U.S. role in Afghanistan, including aid assistance and governance, but not troop numbers.
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