Taliban Takeover: The Taliban took efficient management of Afghanistan on August 15. (File)
Kabul:
The Taliban Friday welcomed a UN Safety Council decision formally extending the world physique’s presence in Afghanistan, though the federal government of the hardline Islamist group stays unrecognised by the worldwide neighborhood.
Thursday’s decision — which avoids utilizing the phrase “Taliban” — permits the UN to proceed work in Afghanistan, nonetheless reeling after a long time of warfare and whose financial system was devastated when the worldwide neighborhood reduce off assist because the group took energy final yr.
The vote to increase the United Nations Help Mission for Afghanistan (UNAMA) was 14 in favour, with one abstention — by Russia.
The UN has not but recognised the Taliban’s choose of envoy to the physique, and the decision doesn’t give the brand new authorities worldwide recognition.
The mission consists of a number of strands of cooperation, on humanitarian and political points in addition to on human rights, together with these of girls, youngsters and journalists.
“We take into account the extension of the mandate of UNAMA as an excellent step and need them to work successfully for fixing humanitarian and different issues in Afghanistan,” Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid advised AFP Friday.
“We are going to coordinate and cooperate with them.”
First established in Afghanistan in 2002, UNAMA’s mandate has previously included humanitarian assist, human rights advocacy and political and regional cooperation.
Earlier than final yr it additionally sought to guard civilians all through the battle and assist the peace course of.
“The Council provides a transparent message with this new mandate: UNAMA has an important function to play in selling peace and stability in Afghanistan and to assist the Afghan individuals as they face unprecedented challenges and uncertainty,” stated Norwegian UN ambassador Mona Juul, whose nation drafted the decision.
Disaster deepens
The safety state of affairs in Afghanistan seems to be stabilising, months after the Taliban seized energy on August 15, 2021 amid a hasty withdrawal of US-led international forces after 20 years of warfare.
However since then the nation’s humanitarian disaster has deepened.
The United Nations and different world assist businesses have stated that greater than half of Afghanistan’s 38 million individuals are dealing with starvation as winter drags on.
The nation has recognized nearly steady warfare since 1979, damaged up solely by the Taliban’s first regime from 1996 to 2001.
Consequently it is among the world’s poorest international locations, with little in the best way of infrastructure and a younger inhabitants traumatised by a long time of combating.
In January, the UN made its biggest-ever single-country assist attraction, calling for $5 billion to avert a humanitarian disaster.
International donors led by Washington have insisted that any international assist will rely on the Taliban’s coverage with regards to ladies’s rights to schooling and work.
Since coming to energy the Taliban have imposed a number of restrictions on ladies, although in a glimmer of hope officers have stated that secondary faculties for ladies will reopen quickly.
Earlier this month the World Financial institution introduced greater than $1 billion in humanitarian assist for Afghanistan, stating the cash would go to UN businesses and worldwide NGOs whereas remaining outdoors the management of the Taliban.
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