UN seeks unbiased concepts on tackling Afghanistan’s Taliban

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations Safety Council unanimously adopted a decision Thursday calling for unbiased suggestions on how a united worldwide group ought to deal with the large challenges confronting Afghanistan — above all of the Taliban’s drastic curtailment of schooling and work for girls and ladies, but in addition terrorism and the nation’s dire humanitarian and financial state of affairs.

The decision, co-sponsored by Japan and the United Arab Emirates, asks U.N. Secretary-Common Antonio Guterres to determine an unbiased panel to evaluate the state of affairs in Afghanistan and make proposals for a “coherent method” for key gamers inside and out of doors the United Nations coping with the political, humanitarian and improvement points. It ordered the evaluation to be supplied to the Safety Council no later than Nov. 17.

United Arab Emirates Ambassador Lana Nusseibeh was requested afterward whether or not the Safety Council and the U.N. Secretariat have run out of their very own concepts to deal with the way forward for Afghanistan. She known as the Afghan state of affairs very complicated and mentioned council members hope the concepts from the unbiased evaluation will assist bolster the council’s considering “and the considering of the worldwide group round a world technique.”

She famous criticism that there isn’t any worldwide technique to cope with Afghanistan’s challenges and crises.

“Afghanistan has been on a particularly alarming trajectory since August 2021,” Nusseibeh mentioned. “So, our hope is that the evaluation will provide credible options as to how the varied related worldwide and regional actors can coalesce round a shared imaginative and prescient for the nation, and the way we will advance that imaginative and prescient within the Safety Council.”

She mentioned the unanimous approval of the decision by the 15-member Safety Council, which stays paralyzed over Ukraine due to Russia’s veto energy and divided on different points, reveals that unity is feasible on Afghanistan.

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The decision listed a number of challenges dealing with Afghanistan that must be addressed, together with human rights, particularly of ladies and ladies, the dire humanitarian state of affairs, the issues of non secular and ethnic minorities, safety and terrorism, narcotics manufacturing, social, financial and improvement wants, selling dialogue and bettering governance and the rule of legislation.

The Taliban seized energy in mid-August 2021 amid the chaotic departure of U.S. and NATO troops after 20 years. Because the Taliban did throughout their earlier rule of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001, they step by step reimposed their harsh interpretation of Islamic legislation, or Sharia. Women at the moment are barred from faculty past the sixth grade and girls are banned from most jobs, public areas similar to parks, and gymnasiums.

The Safety Council additionally unanimously adopted a second decision extending the mandate of the United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan — UNAMA — till March 17, 2024.

Its mandate contains fostering an inclusive political dialogue, monitoring and reporting on human rights, facilitating humanitarian help, addressing financial and social challenges and countering terrorism and narcotics.

“The position of UNAMA is changing into extra vital and indispensable at the moment of disaster,” Japan’s U.N. Ambassador Ishikane Kimihiro advised the council earlier than the vote.

After the vote, U.S. deputy ambassador Robert Wooden known as UNAMA “a lifeline for the folks of Afghanistan,” saying it “is vital to working towards the peace and stability that all of us agree is so vital for Afghanistan and the world.”