Islamabad:
Minister of State for International Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar will attend the Particular Envoy’s assembly on Afghanistan to be held in Doha, the capital of Qatar, from Might 1 to 2, 2023.
The Ministry of International Affairs stated in a press launch on Monday that this assembly is being held underneath the auspices of the United Nations.
Aside from attending the assembly, Khar may also maintain bilateral conferences with the leaders of different taking part nations.
Chaired by UN Secretary-Normal Antonio Guterres, the assembly brings collectively key worldwide and regional nations to debate the continued state of affairs in Afghanistan in the direction of constructive engagement.
Nonetheless, the Taliban authorities has not been invited, and the query of recognizing the administration has been raised forward of the assembly. AFP.
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The Minister of State for Exterior Affairs will current Pakistan’s method to Afghanistan and work with worldwide and regional companions to construct consensus on the best way ahead.
The ministry stated that Pakistan will proceed to help all efforts to advance the frequent objectives of a peaceable, secure, unbiased, affluent and related Afghanistan.
In November final 12 months, Khar led a delegation on a one-day go to to Kabul the place he met Performing Afghan International Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi. It was not clear whether or not safety was mentioned within the assembly or not.
“Bilateral problems with mutual curiosity together with training, well being, commerce and funding, regional connectivity, people-to-people contacts and socio-economic initiatives have been mentioned,” the International Workplace stated in a press release.
Forward of the upcoming Doha talks, the United Nations and the US have insisted that recognizing the Taliban authorities will not be on the agenda.
Issues from rights teams have been fueled by UN Deputy Secretary-Normal Amina Mohammad, who stated final month that the Doha summit may include “child steps” that might result in “recognition in precept” of the Taliban authorities. can.
The United Nations stated the feedback have been misinterpreted. No nation has established formal relations with the Taliban administration, and UN membership can solely be determined by the UN Normal Meeting.
Forward of his arrival in Doha, Guterres’ workplace stated the assembly aimed to “interact with the Taliban throughout the worldwide neighborhood” on girls’s and women’ rights, inclusive governance, counter-terrorism and drug trafficking. to have a typical understanding about.”
Because the Taliban got here to energy after the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan in 2021, no nation has acknowledged the federal government as official.
The previous Taliban authorities, which dominated from 1996 to 2001, was formally acknowledged by solely three nations: Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.
Diplomats, NGOs and help companies are at the moment deeply divided over the problem.
Some consider the worldwide neighborhood may drive the Taliban to vary restrictions on girls’s rights by dangling the prospect of recognition. Others argue that even discussing it offers the Taliban legitimacy at a time when they’re pushing girls out of public life.
With extra enter from AFP