A UN envoy has met the Minister of Home Afghanistan for many years, one of the most sought-after Islamic militants in the world and is now part of the government that tries to hold a humanitarian crisis.
The meeting between Deborah Lyons, Head of the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan, and Sirajuddin Haqqani focused on humanitarian assistance, Suhail Shaheen, a Taliban spokesman, said in a statement on Twitter on Thursday.
“(Haqqani) emphasizes that UN personnel can do their work without obstacles and provide vital assistance to Afghans,” he said.
Afghanistan has faced chronic poverty and drought https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/un-refuge-chief-warns-greate R-sufferer-Afghanistan-2021-09-16 But the situation has deteriorated since the Taliban took Transfer last month with aid disturbance, departure tens of thousands of people including government and aid workers and collapse of many economic activities.
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said at the International Aid Conference this week that Afghanistan faced “maybe the most dangerous clock”.
The United Nations mission in Afghanistan said that at Wednesday meeting Lyons had emphasized “the need for absolute for all UN and humanitarian personnel in Afghanistan to be able to work without intimidation or obstruction to provide vital assistance for the people of Afghanistan”.
Taliban repeatedly targeted the United Nations for two Military Missions led by US in Afghanistan which ended last month with the defeat of the government supported by the Taliban.
In one of the most bloody incidents, Taliban militants killed five United Nations foreign staff in an attack on a guest house in Kabul in 2009.
Recently, gunmen attacked a UN compensation in Herat City in July with a driven grenade By a rocket that killed a guard, while protesters in the northern city of Mazar-I-Sharif in 2011 killed seven UN staff.
The Haqqani network, a faction in the Taliban and for years based on the border with Pakistan, is responsible for several worst militant attacks in Afghanistan during the Taliban rebellion.
The United States appointed a group of terrorist organizations in 2012.
Haqqani, the head of the eponymous network founded by his father, is one of the FBI’s most sought-after men with a $ 10 million prize for information that leads to his arrest.
US officials and members of the US-supported Afghan government for many years said the Haqqani network maintained a bond with Al Qaeda.
The Taliban has promised not to let Afghanistan be used for militant attacks in other countries.
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