The signatories, who support the Taliban, estimate that the United States and its allies must pay through a donor conference for the reconstruction of the country
The main result of the summit held in Moscow with Taliban representatives has been the commitment of ten countries to promote a donor conference within the United Nations that will help Afghanistan overcome the current economic collapse and can undertake its reconstruction. The idea is that the funds needed to tackle such a task will be provided by the United States and its NATO allies, who are considered to be “responsible” for the current situation in the Central Asian country for having occupied it militarily for two decades and then abandoned it. your luck.
The ten countries that have promised the new Kabul authorities to collaborate with the objective of mobilizing resources are Russia, the host country of the summit, China, Pakistan, Iran, India and the five former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Almost all share a border with Afghanistan or, as in the case of Russia and Kazakhstan, are very close. They will try to convene a donor conference as soon as possible to avoid an economic and humanitarian catastrophe.
Cited by different Russian media, the representatives of these ten states stressed that the main burden of aid should fall on the countries whose troops were present in Afghanistan in the last twenty years, in obvious allusion to the United States and its allies of the NATO. The withdrawal of these forces in August made it possible for the Taliban to come to power by force.
North American absence
It so happens that the Americans were not present at the Moscow meeting even though they were summoned. On Monday, US State Department spokesman Ned Price announced that they would not attend the meeting. “We hope to participate in that forum in the future, but we are not in a position to participate this week,” he said.
Russia is very concerned that Afghanistan suffers from a situation of international isolation leading to its total bankruptcy. Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov said this week that “no one is interested in the paralysis of a neighboring state”, whose destabilization could end up affecting the entire area. The Kemlin, according to the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, María Zajárova, believes that something like this could give wings to terrorist groups such as Daesh.
The Taliban overthrew the Afghan government, which had the support of the West, and established an Islamic emirate. Since then, the country has faced acute capital shortages.
97% of households, below the poverty line
Three months after the Taliban came to power, the darkness in which the country’s women have been left will give rise to the coldest winter in history. The UN on Friday launched an appeal to the international community to prevent the country from falling to the level of Yemen and warned that if the world does not contribute to the fund it has created, at the beginning or middle of next year 97% of households Afghans will be below poverty, reports Mercedes Gallego, a New York correspondent.
The “drastic deterioration” of living conditions in the country can be measured “by all economic indicators”, Achim Steiner, administrator of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), but perhaps the least visible is that of women . And not because the economy did not collect their contributions, but because they have hidden in their homes, fearful of neighbors and relatives. 80% of the microenterprises that supported the economy were led by them, Steiner said, so their absence has deprived a vital lifeblood of the local economy. The fundamental was provided by international organizations, which withdrew from the country overnight. A good part of the population that worked for them has not received any salary for four or five months.
The UN program, which starts from a modest amount of one billion dollars, compared to what the international community invested until last August, aims to hire women and men on equal terms to carry out public works, found micro-businesses and provide aid to the most vulnerable population – the elderly and the disabled – who cannot leave home.
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