Aug. 20 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The deputy head of the European Union Delegation in Afghanistan, Arnout Pauwels, has demanded that the Taliban fundamentalist movement cease its practices of discrimination and other violations of Human Rights before opening the dialogue on a possible international recognition of the regime.
Pauwels, in an interview with Tolo News, considers the return of girls to secondary education a “priority” and, in general terms, the end of discriminatory practices against women.
“The number one problem is getting girls to go to school. It is absolutely the number one problem for the European Union”, declared the diplomat, before asking the Taliban to “give women back the right to work”, and moving from there to “human rights in general, freedom of the media, respect for the rights to life and an end to extrajudicial executions”.
The deputy head of the EU delegation has rejected that these requests, as the Taliban denounce, are an attempt at “interventionism” and has assured that any attempt to communicate with the Taliban regime goes in two directions.
“The conversation has to take place in a respectful way. We will listen very carefully to what the (Taliban) leadership says, we will see what they do and then we will make our own decision,” he said.
In any case, the EU will wait to see if the Taliban change their ways. “I see the recognition as the result of a long process and not as the beginning of something,” she has indicated. “First things have to improve and then we can talk about recognition,” she has settled.
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