Afghan peace negotiators have told Sky News they have no intention of attending talks with the Taliban in Qatar.
A spokesman said: "Taliban are not interested in peace, (their) only intention is in becoming the government again."
Afghan President Hamid Karzai had already cancelled a peace delegation to Doha, where security talks between the US and the Taliban were due to take place.
He was angry about a move by the Taliban to cast their new office in the Gulf nation of Qatar as a rival embassy.
The Qatari government insisted that a sign suggesting it was an embassy was removed, a move welcomed by the Americans.
But the negotiators say that Taliban officials removing the flag and sign is not enough to undo the damage done when they opened the office.
Sky Foreign Affairs Correspondent Lisa Holland said: "It's something the Afghan government are furious about.
"They feel they've been sidelined. The situation's been made even worse by the fact the Taliban were allowed to open an office here (in Doha).
"The Afghan government say the Taliban have been allowed to look like a government in exile."
The Taliban has said it does not recognise the government of Mr Karzai.
It's representatives held a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday at which they hoisted their flag and a banner with the name they used while in power more than a decade ago: "Political Office of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan."
The security talks are an ongoing discussion about the shape of a small international "back-up" force to stay in Afghanistan once combat troops have left at the end of next year.
The US has dropped its pre-condition for talks that the Taliban must ends its links to al Qaeda. That is likely to be part of an initial declaration of agendas between the two sides.
US officials say the first meeting will be about laying out each others' positions then they will go away and meet again in a few weeks.
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