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Afghanistan: ‘Afghan economic crisis deepens’
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KABUL, 05 March 2022, (TON): The UN envoy to Kabul said “humanitarian agencies may have distributed enough aid in Afghanistan to avert famine and large-scale starvation, but the country’s economic collapse is “approaching a point of irreversibility.”
UN Special Representative Deborah Lyons told the UN Security Council that it is most urgent to resolve the root problems of the economic crisis, but doing so will require cooperating on all issues with the Taliban who seized power in August.
Lyons said “we do not believe that we can truly assist the Afghan people without working with the defacto authorities.”
The Taliban authorities lack international recognition six months after overrunning Kabul as the last US-led international troops departed, ending 20 years of war.
Donors cut financial aid constituting more than 70% of government expenditures and about $9 billion in Afghan central bank assets were frozen. Many Taliban leaders remain under US and UN sanctions.
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