Peace talks are again on between Afghanistan’s authorities and the Taliban, with renewed urgency because the US will increase strain on reaching a political resolution earlier than a May 1 troop withdrawal deadline. Amid a surge in violence, there are issues over what a power-sharing association with the Taliban might imply for human rights, particularly the rights of ladies and women. Afghanistan’s Ambassador to the EU and NATO, Nazirullah Salarzai mentioned nobody needed the Taliban to return.
Nearly 20 years after the Taliban was pushed out of energy in Kabul by the US-led coalition within the wake of the September 11 assaults, the novel Islamist group is on the negotiating desk with the Afghan authorities. Will Washington stroll away after spending a lot blood and treasure for thus lengthy? The lack of progress on so many ranges in Afghanistan is obvious: corruption stays endemic and human rights appear to be slipping because the Taliban waits within the wings. Can the Kabul authorities lastly ship on the guarantees it has made to reform?
DW’s Sarah Kelly requested Afghanistan’s Ambassador to the EU and NATO, Nazifullah Salarzai, if his authorities can ship to its companions and for its individuals.
Speaking remotely from Brussels, the ambassador informed Kelly on Conflict Zone that his authorities’s aim was to protect and shield “the hard-won gains of the last 20 years,” including that nobody desires the Taliban to return to energy in Kabul. He admitted that the peace course of was “lengthy.”
‘The reality of Afghanistan’
Pressed by Kelly on his personal authorities’s inclusion of warlords with reputations for rape and homicide within the negotiating staff, Salarzai mentioned, “Those sitting around the tables are the reality of Afghanistan.”
Salarzai famous that the federal government’s negotiating staff included one lady. Asked by Kelly a few latest proposal to ban public singing by women, dismissed the difficulty as “a simple misunderstanding” amongst native officers.
On the broader difficulty of ladies’s rights in Afghanistan, Salarzai mentioned his nation’s management had a powerful curiosity in selling and defending girls’s rights and that progress was persevering with to be made in enterprise, legislation, and authorities.
The ambassador mentioned that Afghan safety forces sought to guard the nation’s residents in each motion.
On the difficulty of corruption, Salarzai mentioned that “there is a strong will to end the culture of impunity.”
On one distinguished case of corruption and embezzlement that led to the collapse of the Kabul Bank, the federal government had promised to recuperate the roughly one billion {dollars} misplaced. Salarzai famous that “half of those funds had been recovered.”
