Taliban regard UN-led talks on Afghanistan notwithstanding ostracism of women



KABUL:

The Taliban supervision praised on Wednesday a “spirit of cooperation” towards Afghanistan in UN-led talks that released women from a country.

Two days of meetings on Afghanistan finished in Doha on Monday, imprinting a initial time Taliban authorities were enclosed in a talks attended by United Nations officials and general special envoys.

Rights groups strongly criticised a UN preference to bar polite multitude groups from a categorical meetings, in a concede done to inspire a Taliban government’s participation.

Foreign officials “had a good suggestion of team-work vis-a-vis Afghanistan and we could see that their policies for Afghanistan have definitely changed”, Taliban supervision orator Zabihullah Mujahid told a news discussion in Kabul.

“Afghanistan has come out of isolation” and “an atmosphere of trust has been created”, he added. The Doha talks were a third given a Taliban surged behind to energy in 2021.

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They were not invited to a initial turn and refused to attend a second, insisting on being a usually Afghan member to a ostracism of polite multitude groups, including women’s organisations.

“As this assembly was organized as per Afghanistan’s final and in care of a inhabitant interests, we were means to attend and to surprise a universe of a position,” Mujahid said.

The general village has wrestled with a proceed to a Taliban given they returned to power, with no nation strictly recognising a government.

Some trust a Taliban supervision should be removed until they breeze behind curbs on women and girls. Others disagree rendezvous on other topics should be dialled adult in a bid to build dialogue.

“We told a countries that Afghanistan’s inner issues – issues associated to a people and women – are Afghanistan’s issues,” Mujahid said. “It should not be used for countries to request domestic pressure.”

This turn of Doha talks centred on efforts to accelerate Afghanistan’s private zone and support counter-narcotics work in a nation that has historically been a largest writer of opium. The routine was launched to plead augmenting and coordinating rendezvous with Afghanistan.

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The UN was criticised for usually including polite multitude organisations, including women’s rights groups, during apart meetings a day after a central talks.

Rights groups warned that a sidelining of Afghan women would legitimise policies imposed by a Taliban authorities that a UN has characterised as “gender apartheid”. But a European Union’s special attach� to Afghanistan, Tomas Niklasson, pronounced creation concessions to Taliban authorities authorised for “good discussion” with all parties in Doha.

“To have a event to speak with a Taliban, and they came, and to speak with these individuals, polite society, private sector, and they came… we consider this was value it”, he told AFP on Tuesday.