According to the Associated Press, the Taliban reportedly held more than 500 tons of humanitarian aid materials, which the United Nations World Food Program said were trapped on the Afghan border.
US ambassador Linda Thomas Greenfield urged aid to enter the country, and the UN Security Council issued a statement calling on the UN and other humanitarian personnel to enter immediately to provide aid, “including crossing the line of conflict.”
The statement drafted by Estonia and Norway called for “an end to all violations and violations of human rights and international humanitarian law.” Thomas Greenfield also called on the Taliban to allow people to leave Afghanistan safely.
“All Afghan nationals and international citizens who wish to leave must be allowed to leave safely,” Thomas Greenfield said, adding that the United States is committed to “generously relocate Afghans” and “we all need to do more.”
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After the Taliban took over Afghanistan and conducted inclusive negotiations to form a new Afghan government that includes women, the United Nations security services on Monday called for an immediate end to violence in Afghanistan.
Since the Taliban ousted U.S.-backed President Ashraf Ghani a day ago, the committee emphasized in its first statement that the Taliban or any other organization should not use Afghan territory to “threat or attack any country”. “
The United Nations’ most powerful agency called for “emergency negotiations to resolve the country’s current power crisis and reach a peaceful solution through an Afghan-led and Afghan-owned national reconciliation process”.
It said that the new government must be “united, inclusive and representative-including the full, equal and meaningful participation of women.”
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for an immediate end to violence and urged the international community to unite to ensure that the human rights of all Afghans are respected. He said that in the 1990s when the Taliban ruled and banned girls’ education and imposed severe measures on women, he was “especially worried about the increasing human rights violations of Afghan women and girls, and they were afraid of returning to the darkest days” . .
Guterres said: “The world is paying attention to events in Afghanistan with a heavy heart and is deeply disturbed by the prospects for the future,” Guterres said, as the country’s future and the hopes and dreams of a generation of Afghan youths are balanced. , The days ahead “will be the key.”
Afghanistan’s ambassador to the United Nations, Ghulam Isakzai, said that “there is no time to shirk responsibility” and responded to Guterres’ call to call on the Security Council to immediately stop violence and respect human rights, and “to prevent Afghanistan from getting into trouble”. Civil war and became a pariah country. “
He told the Security Council that he “speaks on behalf of millions of people in Afghanistan whose fate is hanging in the balance and facing an extremely uncertain future”, including “millions of Afghan girls and women who are about to lose their freedom of travel.” Go to school, work and participate in the political, economic and social life of the country”, as well as human rights defenders, journalists, scholars, civil servants and former security personnel.
Isakzai, appointed by the Ghani government, said: “The residents of Kabul reported that the Taliban had begun conducting house-to-house searches in some neighborhoods, registering names and looking for people on the target list. There have been reports of targeted removals and robberies in the city. “
“The residents of Kabul are now living in absolute fear,” Isakzai added, calling on the UN Secretary-General and the Security Council not to recognize the restoration of the Islamic Emirate that the Taliban might impose.
Isakzai also called for the urgent establishment of “humanitarian corridors to evacuate those at risk of Taliban reprisals and attacks,” and called on neighboring countries to open their borders to those who try to escape and demand humanitarian supplies to enter the country.
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