UNITED NATIONS: The world is losing tolerance of the Taliban, a UN envoy told the Security Council on Tuesday, as the Islamist governance shows no sign of allowing girls’ education and question marks remain over its links to Al Qaeda.
Markus Potzel, the United Nations deputy representative in Afghanistan, told the council that while there have been some positive developments since the Taliban took power last time, “they have been too many and too slow and are overbalanced by the negatives.”
“I’m hysterical that tolerance is running out by numerous in the transnational community regarding a strategy of engagement with Afghanistan’s Taliban,” he said.
Potzel spoke as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres noted that the Taliban have been “nebulous as to the extent to which they would wish to engage externally, absent formal recognition and rested on being in agreement with their interpretation of the sharia.”
In his daily report released on Tuesday, Guterres also said he believes this time’s US payoff of Al Qaeda leader Ayman al- Zawahiri by a drone strike in Kabul “brought to the fore the continuing ties between the terrorist group and the Taliban, which would be contrary to the latter’s counter-terrorism commitments.”
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The report also denounced the “severe restrictions” still assessed on the rights of women and girls, including the ban on secondary education.
In a common statement fastening on girls’ education, the 10non-permanent members of the Security Council and the five countries that will take seats on the council coming time called on the Taliban to “incontinently reverse this decision.” “The transnational community has not and won’t forget Afghan women and girls,” they said.
One envoy still suggested there was opposition from at least one of the endless Security Council members, who apply prescription power.
“We’ve worked hard in order to get a statement from the entire council, but we weren’t suitable to,” Norwegian Ambassador Mona Juul told journalists.
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According to a political source, China and Russia opposed a common statement that didn’t also include a request for the release of Afghan means firmed since the Taliban’s return to power.
During the meeting, Chinese Ambassador Geng Shuang, stressing the need to insure the right of girls, said that the means firmed abroad “should be used expeditiously for the enhancement of Afghan lives and profitable reconstruction.”
