ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Sunday warned of “serious consequences” for the international community. Afghanistan’s economic slowdown Continued, urges world leaders to find ways to engage with the country Taliban To help leaders prevent a humanitarian disaster.
The Foreign Minister of Pakistan, speaking at the inauguration of a special meeting of the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in Islamabad Shah Mehmood Qureshi Said that an exit from the deepening crisis could mean mass hunger, an influx of refugees and an increase in extremism.
“We cannot completely ignore the threat of an economic slowdown,” he told the gathering, which included representatives from the United States, China, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations, along with Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaki.
the biggest meeting conference on Afghanistan As the US-backed government fell in August and the Taliban returned to power.
Since then, billions of dollars in aid and assets have been frozen by the international community, and the country of 38 million now faces a cold winter.
United Nations Afghanistan has warned repeatedly that Afghanistan is on the verge of the world’s worst humanitarian emergency, with a combined food, fuel and cash crisis.
Qureshi said the OIC is being asked to consider a six-point plan to help Afghanistan, which will help ease pressure on his country in collaboration with Taliban officials.
This will include coordinating support, increasing investment, helping rebuild Afghan institutions, and providing technical experts to manage the economy.
Any aid was to be announced on Sunday evening.
No nation has yet formally recognized the Taliban government and diplomats face the delicate task of providing aid to the victims. afghan economy Without supporting radical Islamists.
Almost all the inaugural speakers mentioned the need for the Taliban to protect the rights of minorities and give women and girls the right to work and be educated.
Although the Taliban have promised a milder version of the radical regime that characterized their first term in power from 1996 to 2001, women have been largely excluded from government employment and secondary schools for girls have remained mostly closed.
OIC meeting The new Taliban government was not expected to give the formal international recognition it so desperately craves.
Earlier, Qureshi said there was a difference between “recognition and engagement” with the new order in Kabul.
“Let us inspire them to move in the right direction, through persuasion, through encouragement,” he told reporters before the meeting.
“The policy of coercion and intimidation didn’t work. If it worked, we wouldn’t be in this situation.”
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were the only three countries to recognize the previous Taliban government.
The meeting is being held amid tight security, with Islamabad under lockdown, barbed-wire barriers and shipping-container barriers where police and soldiers stand guard.
The Foreign Minister of Pakistan, speaking at the inauguration of a special meeting of the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), in Islamabad Shah Mehmood Qureshi Said that an exit from the deepening crisis could mean mass hunger, an influx of refugees and an increase in extremism.
“We cannot completely ignore the threat of an economic slowdown,” he told the gathering, which included representatives from the United States, China, Russia, the European Union and the United Nations, along with Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaki.
the biggest meeting conference on Afghanistan As the US-backed government fell in August and the Taliban returned to power.
Since then, billions of dollars in aid and assets have been frozen by the international community, and the country of 38 million now faces a cold winter.
United Nations Afghanistan has warned repeatedly that Afghanistan is on the verge of the world’s worst humanitarian emergency, with a combined food, fuel and cash crisis.
Qureshi said the OIC is being asked to consider a six-point plan to help Afghanistan, which will help ease pressure on his country in collaboration with Taliban officials.
This will include coordinating support, increasing investment, helping rebuild Afghan institutions, and providing technical experts to manage the economy.
Any aid was to be announced on Sunday evening.
No nation has yet formally recognized the Taliban government and diplomats face the delicate task of providing aid to the victims. afghan economy Without supporting radical Islamists.
Almost all the inaugural speakers mentioned the need for the Taliban to protect the rights of minorities and give women and girls the right to work and be educated.
Although the Taliban have promised a milder version of the radical regime that characterized their first term in power from 1996 to 2001, women have been largely excluded from government employment and secondary schools for girls have remained mostly closed.
OIC meeting The new Taliban government was not expected to give the formal international recognition it so desperately craves.
Earlier, Qureshi said there was a difference between “recognition and engagement” with the new order in Kabul.
“Let us inspire them to move in the right direction, through persuasion, through encouragement,” he told reporters before the meeting.
“The policy of coercion and intimidation didn’t work. If it worked, we wouldn’t be in this situation.”
Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were the only three countries to recognize the previous Taliban government.
The meeting is being held amid tight security, with Islamabad under lockdown, barbed-wire barriers and shipping-container barriers where police and soldiers stand guard.
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