Afghan FM calls for ‘constructive engagement’ with general community

Afghanistan’s unfamiliar apportion on Monday called for “constructive engagement” with a general community, though deserted a need for a appointment of a United Nations special attach� to his country.

Amir Khan Muttaqi was addressing a discussion in Kabul that brought together special envoys and member from 11 countries, including China, Russia, Iran, Pakistan and India.

He called for “developing informal team-work for a constructive engagement… to tackle existent and intensity threats in a region”.

The Taliban’s supervision in Kabul has not been strictly recognized by any other supervision given it took energy in 2021, commanding a despotic interpretation of Islam that has limited women from roughly all aspects of open life.

“The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan respects others’ interests, choices, supervision structures, and growth models, and in return, expects others to honour Afghanistan’s interests,” Muttaqi told reporters.

Afghanistan’s economy has struggled by decades of war, a predicament deepened by general sanctions on a banking complement and unfamiliar resources after a Taliban supervision came to power.

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In December, a UN Security Council upheld a fortitude job for a appointment of a special attach� for Afghanistan, a post that Kabul deserted as “unnecessary”.

On Monday, Muttaqi steady that rejection, observant Afghanistan “does not need another UN special representative”.

The UN is due to reason a assembly on a conditions in Afghanistan on Feb 18 and 19 in a Qatari collateral Doha.

The aim of a assembly will be “to plead how to proceed augmenting general rendezvous in a some-more coherent, concurrent and structured manner”, according to a UN statement.

Muttaqi called on participants of a Kabul assembly to benefaction a “ground realities” during that conference.