At the conclusion of a meeting held on Wednesday with the foreign ministers of the permanent members of the UN Security Council, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres stressed that the five countries “all want a stable Afghanistan”.
Guterres told a group of reporters that the five ministers stressed during the meeting that everyone wanted “an Afghanistan in which respects the rights of women and girls, an Afghanistan that is not a refuge for terrorism, and an Afghanistan where we have An umbrella government representing different sectors of the population“.
The meeting lasted a little over an hour, and none of the ministers who attended it wanted to comment, neither before it began nor after it ended.
Questioned by AFP before the meeting whether it was possible to reach a unified position among the five countries on the Taliban movement, the Chinese ambassador to the United Nations, Zhang Jun, said that “unity is everywhere”.
In addition to Guterres, the meeting was attended by US, Chinese, Russian, British and French foreign ministers.
The meeting took place in the hall of the UN Security Council on the initiative of Great Britain, which expressed the desire to speak “in unison with the Taliban”.
The Taliban, who are seeking international recognition after taking power in Afghanistan, they asked the United Nations to allow them to tackle Afghanistan before the UN General Assembly, whose meetings will conclude next Monday evening.
But the United States has said that the UN Appropriations Committee, which is up to them to decide who represents which member state, has said the committee will not meet until November.
Germany had described the letter sent by the Taliban to the United Nations magazine. German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said reviewing the movement that took control of Afghanistan in the middle of last month (August) at the United Nations will do no good and lead to no result.
This German comment came after the Taliban sent a letter to the United Nations asking it to address world leaders in New York, appointing their spokesperson, Suhail Shaheen, who resides in Doha, as ambassador to the international organization.
Taliban Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaki presented the request in a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, asking to speak at the annual high-level meeting of the General Assembly.
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