Taliban. File photoKABUL, Jan 15Afghan Acting Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, during a meeting with China's Ambassador to Kabul, Wang Yu, called on the PRC to promote the recognition of the Taliban government in the world, according to a statement by the Afghan Interior Ministry.» Affairs stated that China should help the Afghan government recognize the (Taliban) system,» the message reads.Russia is ready to provide a platform for negotiations between the Taliban and the opposition, Haqqani also stressed that Afghanistan needs to «fulfill its promises to the world and neighboring countries that the territory of Afghanistan will not be used against anyone.» In turn, Wang Yu noted that China continues to provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan. According to him, the international community should allow the Afghans to «form the government of their choice,» and the United States should take responsibility for the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan. Earlier, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian said that unilateral sanctions and the freezing of Afghanistan's overseas assets are exacerbating the humanitarian catastrophe. in the country, all frozen assets must be returned to their original owners as soon as possible. China also previously donated one million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Afghanistan, as well as 1.6 million syringes. In early August, the Taliban stepped up their offensive against the Afghan government forces, entered Kabul on August 15 and the next day declared that the war was over. The last two weeks of August, from the Kabul airport, which was under the protection of the US military, there was a mass evacuation of Western citizens and Afghans who collaborated with them. On the night of August 31, the US military left the Kabul airport, ending nearly 20 years of US military presence in Afghanistan. In early September, the composition of the interim government of Afghanistan was announced, which was headed by Mohammad Hassan Akhund, who served as head of the Foreign Ministry during the first rule of the Taliban* and has been under UN sanctions since 2001.* The movement is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities.
The Foreign Ministry appreciated the idea of creating a «security belt» around Afghanistan
