By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, August 4, 2023
At the UN Security Council High-level Open debate on famine and conflict-induced Global Food Security in New York, states’ representatives expressed concern over the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan.
The Representatives of the countries, including Russia, the UK, Pakistan, India, Qatar and Switzerland, mentioned the humanitarian crisis and expressed concern over the number of people needing aid.
The UK ambassador to the UN, Barbara Woodward, said that the Secretary-General’s New Agenda for Peace called for reviving multilateral collaboration and placing women, like those in Afghanistan who must choose between selling their children or going hungry, at the forefront of peace initiatives.
The United States or its allies’ actions are directly or indirectly to blame for the most severe food crises, according to Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia’s first deputy permanent representative to the UN.
“For example, Afghanistan has been struggling to climb out of the abyss of hunger and poverty for over 20 years because of the experiments carried out by the United States-led coalition to democratize this deeply traditional country in a Western fashion,” he said.
117 million of the 258 million people who are food insecure live in 19 war and conflict zones, according to Mohammad Aamir Khan, the deputy permanent representative of Pakistan to the UN, and 15.3 million Afghans are expected to experience severe food insecurity.
“Pakistan will continue to support the 29 million Afghans in need of humanitarian assistance and to help revive Afghanistan’s economy,” he said.
Meanwhile, since the takeover of the Taliban administration, the group introduced the most restricted policies amid a dire humanitarian crisis that has left a financial impact, particularly on women.
In a recent move, the group banned women’s beauty salons. As a result, more than 60,000 women employees who were prominent supporters of their families have lost their jobs.
https://www.khaama.com/un-security-council-expresses-concerns-over-humanitarian-crisis-in-afghanistan/
