Taliban officers stated on Saturday that calls for over ladies’s rights have been “points that Afghanistan” wanted to resolve, forward of United Nations-led compromise talks the place the exclusion of Afghan ladies has sparked protests.
The Taliban authorities, which has imposed restrictions on ladies since taking energy in 2021 that the UN has referred to as “gender apartheid”, will ship its first delegation to the third spherical of talks that start in Qatar on Sunday.
Civil society representatives, together with ladies’s rights teams, will attend conferences with worldwide envoys and UN officers on Tuesday, after the official talks.
Human rights teams have condemned the exclusion of Afghan ladies from main conferences and the shortage of human rights points on the agenda.
Taliban authorities “recognise the issues affecting ladies,” authorities spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid advised a information convention in Kabul on the eve of the newest talks.
“However these points are Afghan points,” stated Mujahid, who will lead the delegation.
“We’re working to discover a logical path to options inside Afghanistan in order that, God forbid, our nation doesn’t fall again into battle and discord.”
He stated the Taliban authorities would symbolize all of Afghanistan on the conferences and, given their authority, they need to be the one Afghans on the desk.
“If Afghans are collaborating by means of varied channels, it means we’re nonetheless scattered, our nation isn’t but unified,” he stated.
The talks have been launched by the UN in Might 2023 and are geared toward rising worldwide coordination in partaking with the Taliban authorities, who overthrew a Western-backed authorities once they got here to energy.
The Taliban authorities has not been formally acknowledged by any state and the worldwide neighborhood has struggled to know its strategy to Afghanistan’s new rulers, with points of ladies’s rights a sticking level for a lot of nations.
Taliban authorities weren’t invited to the primary talks in Doha final 12 months and refused to attend the second convention, demanding to be the one Afghan representatives to the exclusion of invited civil society teams.
That situation has been met for the third spherical.
Mujahid reiterated that the Taliban authorities seeks optimistic relations with all nations.
Nevertheless, he added that there could be no “vital or key discussions” in Doha and that the assembly was a possibility to trade views, notably with Western nations.
The agenda will embrace the struggle in opposition to drug trafficking and financial points, key points for the authorities of the impoverished nation.
“We’ve got obstacles that block financial improvement and they need to be eliminated,” Mujahid stated.
“If the financial system was good, then all the opposite issues might be solved.”
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