The Taliban celebrate the third anniversary of the agreement that laid the foundations of the international withdrawal

March 1 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Taliban have celebrated this Wednesday in Kabul the third anniversary of the signing of the Doha Agreement, remembered by the current regime as a diplomatic victory since it laid the foundations for the subsequent withdrawal of foreign military forces, mainly from the United States.

The Afghan deputy prime minister and co-founder of the Taliban, Mullah Abdulghani Baradar, has emphasized that now it is the former insurgency that rules and must respond to the “legitimate demands” of the Afghan citizenry, who, however, have seen their freedoms and rights worsen. in this years.

Baradar has called to speak with all countries, “whether Islamic or not”, and has accused the United States of violating the commitments made on January 29, 2020, for example regarding the freezing of funds or sanctions against leaders, reports the Ariana agency.

The Minister of Mines, Shahabuddin Delawar, also urged Washington this Wednesday to fulfill the commitments made three years ago to, for example, stop violating Afghan airspace, according to the Jaama agency.

The agreement signed by the Taliban and the US government on February 29, 2020 was called to promote peace in Afghanistan, but in the end it encouraged the insurgency to advance towards a conquest that culminated in August of the following year, with the departure rush of foreign forces and the rise of the very regime that already controlled the country before 2001.

Former Deputy Defense Minister Tamim Asey recalled that, after said pact, “the Taliban began to move slowly from distant districts or towns to more central ones or provincial capitals.” The Afghan army began to cede territory and “the Americans knew it would collapse,” he added, according to the DPA news agency.

For part of the Afghan military, the Doha Agreement granted unprecedented legitimacy to the Taliban, whom they no longer consider an enemy to use in a country that, in political terms, was still marked by chaos, corruption and lack of of strong institutions.