By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in TOLOnews, March 29,2023 at 8:44 PM
Deputy Foreign Minister Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai said that based on the Doha Agreement, the US should resume its diplomatic presence in Afghanistan.
According to Stanikzai, other nations would resume their diplomatic ties with Afghanistan if America reopened its embassy.
While visiting the Afghan Consulate in Dubai, Stanakzai noted that the US pledged in Doha to cooperate with the new Afghan government and to avoid interfering in the country’s internal affairs when its forces depart Afghanistan.
“According to the agreement we reached there, the Americans gave a guarantee that after the withdrawal of the American forces from Afghanistan, the Islamic system that comes to power, we will have friendly relations with them and our embassy or a so-called diplomatic presence will exist in Afghanistan,”
Stanikzai said.
The deputy foreign minister said that if the world wants a strong Afghanistan, it should take the path of interacting with the current Afghan government.
Speaking at the Afghan Consulate in Dubai, Stanikzai said that efforts are underway to reopen girls’ schools across the country.
“We are trying to solve this problem, and open the gate of education to boys and girls, and even the Islamic Emirate has not said that we definitely do not want women’s education, but only temporarily. When we sit together with elders and scholars, almost 90 percent of them have the the same opinion: that schools should be reopened for girls,” Stanikzai said.
Washington considers to criticize the Islamic Emirate for non-compliance with the Doha Agreement.
Human rights, the fight against terrorism, the creation of an inclusive government, and preventing the use of Afghan soil from being used against other nations are the concerns that some nations, including the US, have highlighted.
“The main reasons for the political isolation of the Taliban administration and the fact that they are not recognized are the failure of the peace talks between the then republic and the Taliban as well as the policies implemented by the Taliban administration in Afghanistan,” said Nematullah Bizhan, an international relations expert.
“They did not release the 5,000 prisoners on time, and the names of the officials of the Islamic Emirate were not removed from the blacklists, and also they did not leave Afghanistan based on their schedule,” said Mohammad Bashar, a political analyst.
Earlier, acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in an op-ed for Al Jazeera said that the primary cause of the ongoing economic crisis is the imposition of sanctions and banking restrictions by the US, saying that this impedes and delays efforts to address the humanitarian crisis.
The op-ed is titled: “Afghanistan is ready to work with the US, but sanctions must go.”
https://tolonews.com/afghanistan-182731
