 Diplomats seemed cautiously positive about how the last two days of talks have gone. As expected, there were no dramatic breakthroughs, no major announcements and no big solutions to Afghanistan's problems. Instead, the UN in their closing statements said that this was a process, but that it had been a productive few days. They'd been accused by human rights groups of caving to the Taliban authorities' demand not to have other parties from Afghanistan in the room, including women's activist groups.