US EditionA Taliban delegation attends a UN-led meeting in Qatar on Afghanistan, with women excluded
- Taliban authorities plan to address economic sanctions at a UN summit, aiming to tackle challenges to Afghanistan's economy.
- Senior foreign ministry official Zakir Jalaly stated the Taliban government's focus on financial and banking sanctions during the Doha meetings.
- Exclusion of civil society and women's rights groups from the UN summit with a Taliban delegation generates criticism for legitimizing Taliban government policies.
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UN meeting with Taliban in Qatar not a recognition of their govt
The Taliban were not invited to the first meeting, and U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said they set unacceptable conditions for attending the second one, in February, including demands that Afghan civil society members be excluded from the talks and that the Taliban be treated as the country’s legitimate rulers
Human rights activists are sharply criticizing a UN conference with representatives of the Taliban government in Doha. The Islamists know how to use this stage.
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UN-led meeting in Qatar with Afghan Taliban is not a recognition of their government, official says
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A United Nations-led meeting held in Qatar with the Taliban on increasing engagement with Afghanistan does not translate into a recognition of their government, a U.N. official said Monday. The gathering on Sunday and Monday in Qatar’s capital of Doha with envoys from some two dozen countries was the first time that representatives of the Afghan Taliban administration attended such a U.N.-sponsored meeting. The Taliban were not…
Because the Afghan Taliban are hoping for international recognition, they took part in a meeting organized by the UN in Doha for the first time. more...
No Afghan women allowed to attend UN-led meetings with Taliban: 'Caving to terrorist demands'
A two-day meeting between the U.N. and other special envoys with the Taliban in Doha ends on Monday as rights activists decried the failure to involve women in talks or specifically address women’s issues.
Taliban to press international community on Afghanistan sanctions
Taliban authorities said Monday they would press the international community over economic sanctions as they attended a UN-hosted summit in Doha with special representatives to Afghanistan for the first time. The two-day meeting began on Sunday and is the third such summit to be held in Qatar in a little over a year, but the first to include the Taliban authorities who seized power in Afghanistan in 2021. Writing on X, formerly Twitter, senior f…
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