By Naweed Samadi in ToloNews, Nov 25, 2023 at 8:08 PM
Suhail Shaheen, the head of the Islamic Emirate’s Qatar-based Political Office, said the UN acted without neutrality in determining the seat of Afghanistan.
In an interview with RTA, Shaheen said that the UN uses Afghanistan’s seat in the organization as pressure on the Islamic Emirate, urging the organization to handover the seat to the current Afghan government.
“This [UN] is a big organization and they always talk about law and legality and human rights and they claim to be neutral, but they are not neutral in this position,” he noted.
He said the current Afghan government needs to take into account the legitimate demands of the people of Afghanistan.
“We should also take into account the wishes of the people and pay attention to those issues, not because we accept the wishes of foreigners definitively, but for the sake of the people,” Suhail Shaheen further noted.
The head of the Islamic Emirate’s Qatar-based Political Office added that the meetings that have been held in connection with Afghanistan in the past two years without the presence of a representative of the Islamic Emirate, have not had any results for the country and will not have any results in the future either.
Shaheen called the existence of the Islamic Emirate’s Qatar-based Political Office the political gateway of the Islamic Emirate to the world, saying that thirteen embassies of foreign countries for Afghanistan operate from Qatar.
“In addition to the Qatar political office, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs needs to become more active so that Afghanistan’s diplomatic relations and foreign policy become better than this,” said Najibullah Jami, a political analyst.
“The office can also be a good mediator because they can effectively solve the issue of Afghanistan, which is an economic and political crisis and it has not been recognized yet,” said Javid Momand, a university lecturer.
Suhail Shaheen continued to criticize the United States for its failure to live up to its promises, saying that not a single one of its agreements with the Islamic Emirate of Doha has been met.
He emphasized that world perceptions of the current Afghan government have changed over the past two years, and that there are hopes for the Islamic Emirate to be recognized.
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President of Uzbekistan: Afghanistan is Critical to Regional Stability
By Fatema Adeeb in ToloNews, Nov 25, 2023 at 08:49 PM
The President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, said that Afghanistan is critical to stability in the region.
Speaking at the First Summit of the United Nations Special Programme for the Economies of Central Asia, Mirziyoyev said that a positive outcome cannot be achieved without engaging the current Afghan government in international dialogue.
“For certain reasons, today’s meeting is taking place without the participation of representatives from Afghanistan, even though this country is an integral part of Central Asia and is critical to regional stability. I urge my esteemed colleagues, the leadership of UNECE and ESCAP to establish working relations and restore cooperation with Afghanistan as part of the SPECA Program. We cannot afford to leave this country alone with its problems. A positive outcome cannot be achieved without engaging the current Government in international dialogue,” the President of Uzbekistan said.
“Afghanistan is without a doubt the key to regional stability, but Afghanistan itself needs stability, and the key to Afghanistan’s stability is to consider people’s freedoms and ethnic participation in power,” said Sayed Javad Sajadi, a political analyst.
According to some political analysts, the presence of the representative of the Islamic Emirate is beneficial for taking a stand in such meetings.
“If there is a representative of Afghanistan in such meetings, it is natural that he will reflect the positions of the Afghan people there, he will reflect the wishes of the Afghan people, and it is natural that he will answer the questions about Afghanistan, and this is very important for the people of Afghanistan,” Khalil Ahmad Nadim, a political analyst told TOLOnews.
“Any opponent and any enemy can accuse Afghanistan there if Afghan diplomats are not present at world meetings,” Wahid Faqiri, a political analyst, told TOLOnews.
Afghanistan was admitted as a member of the United Nations Special Programme for Economies of Central Asia (SPECA) in May 2005.
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