The Taliban go to the international conference in Doha warning that the repression of women is an internal issue

June 29. (EUROPA PRESS) –

A diplomatic delegation from the fundamentalist Afghan Taliban movement has already left for Doha (Qatar) for an international conference sponsored by the UN, which begins this coming Sunday, in an attempt to reach an agreement with the fundamentalists, although without recognising them as a legitimate government.

The conference, officially called ‘Doha III’, has as its official objective “increasing international collaboration with the Taliban in a “more coherent and structured” way, given the enormous difficulties in talking with the movement, whose authority over Afghanistan it does not officially recognize. any country.

The Taliban returned to power after a lightning offensive that culminated in the capture of the capital, Kabul, on August 15, 2021. The United Nations and humanitarian organizations have accused the Taliban of imposing a systematic exercise of repression against ethnic minorities since then. and the country’s vulnerable population, especially women and girls.

Although the United Nations hopes that the meeting will address the extremely vulnerable situation of women and minorities in the country, the Taliban have indicated that they prefer to focus on the country’s economic situation and this Saturday they have once again warned that the situation of women and girls is an “internal issue.

“Afghanistan’s internal issues will not be discussed in ‘Doha III’ because they are related to the country, not to the United Nations,” the main Taliban spokesperson and Deputy Minister of Information, Zaibulah Mujahid, stressed before leaving, in comments collected by the network. Tolo News.

In fact, the director of the Taliban’s political office in Qatar, Sohail Shahin, has explained that the delegation’s absolute priority is to achieve the elimination of sanctions against the movement since its reconquest of the country, which “are causing so much harm to the Afghan people,” according to the 1TV channel.

In the last few hours, mediators such as the head of the United Nations Mission for Afghanistan and former president of Kyrgyzstan, Roza Otunbayeva, as well as the representatives for the country of the European Union and Pakistan, Thomas Nicholson and Asif, have arrived in the capital of Qatar. Durrani, the Afghan Khaama news agency reports on the other hand.