UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the Taliban had broken promises to guarantee the rights of women and girls and that the economy could not recover if women were barred from work.
Afghanistan’s foreign minister appealed for good relations with the world on October 11, but refrained from making any concrete promises on it girls education Despite international demands to allow all Afghan children to go back to school.
Nearly two months after the fall of the former Western-backed government and rebel forces drowned in kabuli, the new Taliban administration insists on building ties with other countries to help avert disaster Economic Crisis.
“The international community needs to start cooperating with us,” said acting foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaki at an event organized by the Center for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies. “This will allow us to curb insecurities and at the same time we will be able to engage positively with the world.”
But the Taliban have so far refused to allow girls back to high school, which is one of the major demands of the international community after a decision last month that schools above grade six be open to boys only. Will open
Amir Khan Muttaki said the Taliban’s Islamic Emirate government was proceeding cautiously but had only been in power for a few weeks and could not be expected to complete the reforms that the international community would implement in 20 years. was not able to.
“They had a lot of financial resources and they had a strong international backing and support, but at the same time you’re asking us to do all the improvements in two months?” he said.
The new administration has come under constant criticism for its approach to girls’ education, which is seen as one of a limited number of clearly positive gains from the West’s two decades of involvement in Afghanistan.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the Taliban had broken promises to guarantee the rights of women and girls and that there was no way the economy could recover if women were barred from work.
Amir Khan Muttaki repeatedly called on the United States to remove more than $9 billion of Afghan central bank reserves held outside the country, but said the government would have to pay taxes, customs duties and agriculture if the money remained stagnant. generates its own revenue.
He said Taliban forces have complete control of the country and are able to control the threat from Islamic State militants, who have claimed several deadly attacks in recent weeks, including last week. bombing of a Shia mosque in the northern city of Kunduz.
“The Daesh issue has so far been handled very well by the Islamic Emirate, but international pressure on the government is helping the morale of the Islamic State,” he used a derogatory term for the radical Sunni group.
“The world should cooperate with us instead of under pressure.”
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