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Foreign Ministry of Afghanistan Denies UN Security Council’s Call to Lift Restriction on Women:

By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, April 28, 2023The U.N. Security Council’s demand to lift the restriction on women working for the U.N. in Afghanistan was denied Friday by the Taliban’s Ministry of foreign affairs. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement, “The decision to restrict Afghan women from working with the U.N. in Afghanistan is an internal social matter of Afghanistan that does not impact outside states,” the statement said.…

Ambassadors need to understand political history before making public statement: Shahriar tells Wendy

report in Prothom Alo, Dec 23 2022Ambassadors “need to understand the political history of Bangladesh” before making any public statement, said Bangladesh’s State Minister for Foreign Affairs Md. Shahriar Alam to the US on Thursday. He had a telephone call with US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman in the evening. The deputy secretary and state minister discussed mutual priorities in bilateral relations. Shahriar and Sherman also talked about the issues of mutual commitment to…

Khar in Paris to attend crucial FATF meeting

by Ali Hussain in The Business recorder,20 Oct 2022ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar is in Paris to attend an important meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF), which is expected to decide about the likely removal of Pakistan from its grey list. The first FATF plenary under the two-year Singapore Presidency of T Raja Kumar will take place on 20-21 October 2022 in Paris. Delegates representing 206 members of…

Taliban Demands Increased Engagement and Cooperation Rather Than Criticism

By Saqalain Eqbal in The Khaama Press,12 Oct 2022 at04:36 PMThe Taliban’s Minister of Foreign Affairs said during a meeting with the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Afghanistan that the group seeks increased cooperation rather than criticism. The Taliban’s foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, told Richard Bennett, the UN special rapporteur for Afghanistan, that country’s human rights situation has improved, during their meeting on Tuesday, October 10. No one in…