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Afghanistan: Afghan Taliban closer to international recognition, claims foreign minister
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KABUL, 04 February 2022, (TON): The regime's foreign minister clamed in an interview “the Taliban are inching closer towards international recognition but any concessions Afghanistan's new rulers make will be on their terms.”
In his first interview since returning from talks with Western powers in Oslo, Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi also urged Washington to unlock Afghanistan's assets to help ease a humanitarian crisis.
No country has formally recognised the government installed after the Taliban seized power in August as US-led forces withdrew following a 20-year occupation.
But Muttaqi told media late that Afghanistan's new rulers were slowly gaining international acceptance.
He said “on the process of getting recognition we have come closer to that goal.”
“That is our right, the right of the Afghans. We will continue our political struggle and efforts until we get our right.”
The talks in Norway last month were the first involving the Taliban held on Western soil in decades.
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