Afghanistan: Germany, Netherland to directly fund Afghan teachers

KABUL, 20 November 2021, (TON): Germany sent their high-level diplomats to Afghanistan for the first time after the Taliban takeover and met with the Taliban’s Deputy Prime Minister and acting foreign minister.

Germany pledged to be providing the people of Afghanistan with humanitarian aid but added not to help the de-facto authorities in Kabul directly.

The German Foreign Minister in a statement said “the country’s special representative for Afghanistan, Jasper Wieck, and ambassador-designate Markus Potzel met on November 18 with high-ranking officials from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.

The delegation was accompanied by a Dutch special representative for Afghanistan Emiel de Bont.

Germany’s Foreign Minister in the statement said that both sides acknowledged that continued operational contacts on issues where practical cooperation is both necessary and possible, in particular, to address the humanitarian plight of the Afghan people.

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