KABUL: Given the development in Afghanistan, the United Nations Office on drugs and crime (UNODC) has expressed concern for the possibility of rebel groups in the country to take advantage of the situation and increase narcotics flow in Afghanistan and in the environment.
According to Tolonews, the Executive Director of UNODC, Ghada Walyit emphasized the prevention of smuggling and production of opium in Afghanistan.
“Terrorist and criminal groups tend to take advantage of every new opportunity to exploit prohibited narcotics, especially because the situation in Afghanistan develops.
Afghanistan has contributed 85 percent of the world’s opium production in 2020.
In the light of the recent events, there is an urgent need to prevent the forbidden And exploitative crime, to stop the country to become a paradise for its terrorists and resources, and to overcome the expected abundance in neighboring countries, “ToloNews quote Waly at a commission meeting on Narcotics Narcotics in Viana.
However, the Ministry of Home Affairs claims that smuggling, as well as narcotics planting, has stopped in the land of Afghanistan, according to news channels.
In particular, the UN body activity also stopped post-August 15.
The next channel told me that the Interior Ministry spokesman Saeed Khosti said he had claimed to have captured drug smugglers.
“The Islamic Emirates are committed not to let drug cultivation in Afghanistan and smuggle it to other countries,” said spokesman spokesman.
An analyst at International Relations, Mohammad Khan Andar, warned poverty and misery if he did not fight against opium production and smuggling.
He further is worried that the situation in this country will further lead to increased narcotics production.
“It is a fact that if we don’t fight against this phenomenon, poverty, misery and situations in Afghanistan will increase narcotics cultivation, and our country will remain among countries where cultivation has a high percentage,” The News.
The channel quotes Andar as saying.
Recently, the arrangement of financial action assignments (FATF) has raised concerns over the risk environment of money laundering and terrorist financing in Afghanistan, reporting news channels.
“Given the recent events in Afghanistan, Fatf, as a global standard setting body for anti-money laundering financing and counter-terrorist financing, expressing his current concerns about money laundering and developing and terrorist financing environments in this country, reading FATF statements .
FATF confirmed the resolution of the UN Security Council recently about the situation in Afghanistan.
In particular, UNSCR 2593 (2021) demands that the Afghanistan region is not used to threaten or attack any country or to train or plan or plan or plan or plant or plan terrorist action.
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