Auitited nations: The UN special envoy for Afghanistan on Friday questioned the Taliban’s commitment to the political settlement, told the UN Security Council that the war had entered the “more deadly and more destructive phase” with more than 1,000 civilians killed in the past month Over the past month.
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“A party that is truly committed to the negotiated settlement will not have a risk of so many civilian casualties, because it will understand that the reconciliation process will be more challenging, the more blood is shown,” said Deborah Lyons.
The Taliban has increased their campaign to defeat US-backed government since April as foreign forces completed their withdrawal after 20 years of war.
Taliban captured the capital of the Province of Afghanistan and killed the government’s top media officers in Kabul on Friday.
“It is now a different type of war, reminiscent of Syria, recently, or Sarajevo, in the past which is not too far away,” said Lyons.
“To attack urban areas is intentionally pose a very large danger and causes massive civilian casualties.
Even so, the threatening of the large urban area appears to be a strategic decision by the Taliban, which has received the possibility of massacre that will occur,” he said.
The peace talk between the Afghan government and the Taliban negotiator began last year in the capital of Qatar Doha, but had not made substantive progress.
US Deputy Ambassador to UN Richard Mills urged the Taliban to stop their attacks, pursue political settlement and protect infrastructure and Afghans.
“The Taliban must hear from the international community that we will not accept the takeover of the Afghan military or the return of the Taliban Islamic Emirates,” he said.
UN Ambassador Afghanistan Ghulam Isaczai urged the Security Council to act to “prevent disaster situations.” “We are worried about the report and incidence of gross human rights violations by the Taliban and their foreign terrorist associations in almost half of our country and we are very worried about the safety and safety of people in the cities under the Taliban attack,” he said.
Isaczai accused the Taliban Battle “to turn our country once again a safe place of transnational terrorism.”