Afghan Clerics Summit Ends Without Progress For Minority And Women’s Rights
July 2 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The United States envoy on the situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan, Rina Amiri, has declined to sit at the negotiating table with the Taliban in Doha (Qatar), in protest at the refusal of the fundamentalist movement that is at the forefront of Afghanistan to develop the rights of women, minorities and the vulnerable population of the country.
Amiri’s refusal has coincided with the failure of this Saturday’s big summit between the Taliban and Afghan clerics, some of whom had asked the group to exhibit some other measure of openness, such as the restoration of the right of girls to secondary education, to gain international trust.
Instead, the more than 3,000 clerics and notables gathered in Kabul ended up handpicked by the Taliban, eventually simply swearing allegiance to the movement’s supreme leader, Mullah Ajunzada, and repeating the group’s slogans, in particular their request to the international community to unblock the assets of the Afghan Central Bank abroad, paralyzed as punishment for the violent reconquest of the country that the Taliban achieved in August last year.
As of yesterday, only two participants in the meeting of the clerics requested the reopening of schools for girls, an indication that the summit, used by previous governments to legitimize their political decisions, has finally ended empty of all content.
For his part, Amiri has used his Twitter account to explain a renunciation of the dialogue — which has had the support of the US special representative, Thomas West –. “I am deeply concerned about the current actions and posture of the Taliban in the areas my office monitors and I am disappointed that strong international engagement has not produced meaningful results for Afghan women, girls and at-risk populations,” she said. she.
“I will be ready for dialogue,” she added, “when the Taliban are ready to work on concrete steps to restore the rights of Afghans, including women, girls and these populations.”
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