Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen said that senior Taliban officials met in Kabul on Sunday with the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, who promised to continue to provide assistance to the Afghan people.
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The head of the Taliban political office, Mullah Abdul Gani Baradal, and other officials met with Martin Griffith because Afghanistan is facing a potentially catastrophic humanitarian crisis caused by severe drought and economic collapse.
“The United Nations delegation promised to continue to provide humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people and stated that he will call for further assistance to Afghanistan during the upcoming donor conference,” Shahin said on Twitter.
Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world. After the collapse of the Western-backed government and the victory of the Taliban in August, billions of dollars in foreign aid suddenly ceased, and Afghanistan has fallen into crisis.
Shahin said that the Taliban pledged to the UN delegation to “cooperate and provide the necessary facilities.”
The United Nations is expected to hold an international aid conference in Geneva on September 13 to help avoid what the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called “imminent humanitarian disaster.”
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