Western diplomats told the Taliban that humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan would be bound to an increase in human rights, according to a report that emerged as a meeting with the Taliban delegation which ended in Oslo, Norway.
Closed meetings at the door were arrested during the first official Taliban trip to Europe since returning to power in August. After the conversation, the Taliban delegation left Norway on Tuesday Tuesday without making a final statement.
The Taliban was looking for international recognition and a billion-dollar release in the Afghan central bank assets frozen by the US after the group returned to power on August 15, 2021.
The country also found himself disconnected from international financial institutions after the group returned, triggering a banking crisis and battered economic concern would collapse.
Afghan’s humanitarian situation has quickly deteriorated since then, worsens the fate of millions of people who have suffered hunger after severe drought after decades of war and work.
Help also dries after the US restores sanctions after the Taliban takeover.
Norway Refugee Council (NRC) Secretary General Jan Egeland, who participated in the conversation, called for the appointment of sanctions, told AFP: “We cannot save lives unless all sanctions are raised.”
Freezing assistance is “hurt civilians who are the same as NATO countries spend hundreds of billions on defense until August”, he said.
The Taliban delegation, led by Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, met Senior French Foreign Minister Bertrand Lotholary, a special envoy of Britain Nigel Casey, and members of the Norwegian Foreign Ministry.
Western diplomats put what they expected from the Taliban during the conversation.
The European Union’s special envoy to Afghanistan, Tomas Niklason, wrote on Twitter, “also underlined the need for elementary and secondary schools to be accessible for boys and girls throughout the country when the school year began in March”.
He responded to a tweet from a spokesman for the Afghan Foreign Ministry who praised the EU commitment to “continue his humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan”.
Last week, the Taliban promised all the girls will return to school at the end of March.
At the United Nations in New York, the Prime Minister of Norwegian Jonas Gahr said that the conversation seemed to be “serious” and “original”.
