May 5. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The United Nations mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has insisted this Friday that it will not withdraw from the country after an evaluation of its operations on the ground after the authorities established by the Taliban vetoed its workers.
“As the Secretary General of the United Nations (António Guterres) declared in Doha, we must continue to focus on our goal of supporting the people of Afghanistan. We cannot withdraw despite the challenges,” the UN mission said in a statement. Afghanistan.
In this sense, UNAMA has affirmed that it “maintains” its commitment “to obtain a revocation of this prohibition”, which it has branded as “discriminatory”, as well as to “guarantee the safety of all United Nations personnel”, without giving more details of how it will continue its operations without the female staff.
“We reiterate our condemnation of the decision, which is illegal under international law, including the United Nations Charter and the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women,” he said.
UNAMA has not specified how it will continue to deliver humanitarian aid after the ‘de facto’ authorities in Afghanistan vetoed its workers. Guterres affirmed from Doha that they will “always” protest against “these unprecedented and systematic attacks against the rights of women and girls” while he did not give the slightest indication that he was going to formally recognize the fundamentalist regime.
