DOHA: Despite the Taliban’s limitations on its female staff, the UN will remain in Afghanistan to provide aid to millions of desperate Afghans, but funding is running low, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stated on Tuesday( May 2 )
Guterres also stated that worries about Afghanistan’s integrity were growing in his remarks to the media following a meeting of envoys from more than 20 nations in Doha to explore an international strategy for Afghanistan.
Participants agreed on the need for a strategy of engagement, according to Guterres, who added,” We stay and deliver and we are determined to seek the necessary conditions to keep delivering.”
According to him, the Taliban authorities’ ban on female Afghan UN employees last quarter was a violation of human rights.
In the face of unprecedented systemic assaults on women’s and girls’ rights, he declared,” We will never remain silent.”
According to Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, who was present at the envoys’ meeting, Threatening or more isolating Taliban officials is not a practical strategy for nations attempting to ease restrictions on women and ladies or ameliorate Afghan humanitarian crisis.
” What’s the substitute?” In an interview with Reuters, she said,” That’s my question to those who claim that( disengagement ) is even possible ,” adding that threats against the Taliban since it took over Afghanistan 20 months ago have made the movement” more ideological.”
” The reality that your actions created is being felt by the regular 40 million Afghan men.” And we are aware that nobody appears to have done them much good over the past 20 weeks, she added.
For its humanitarian appeal this year, which is just over 6 % funded and falls short of the US$ 4.6 billion requested for a country in which the majority of people live in poverty, Guterres warned of an extreme shortfall in financial pledges.
He emphasized that no nation has formally recognized the Taliban’s organization, which was not the goal of the meeting. When the” right moment to do so, but today is not the right moment ,” he said,” I am open to meeting Taliban officials.”
According to the Taliban leadership, Afghanistan’s place would not be used for violence or acts of violence against other countries, and it respects the rights of women in accordance with their understanding of Islamic law.