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Western fund freeze on Afghanistan risks humanitarian disaster, former UK FM warns
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LONDON, 21 February 2022, (TON): Former British Foreign Minister David Miliband has warned “western countries are damaging their reputations and causing catastrophic damage to the Afghan people by withholding cash supplies.”
The CEO of the International Rescue Committee told The Guardian, “if we wanted to create a failed state we could not have a more effective policy mix than the one we have at the moment.”
He added “I simply do not understand the lack of urgency to get this thing moving. It genuinely befuddles me that we should have allowed this to get so much worse so quickly.”
Miliband and other high-profile figures and officials are urging US President Joe Biden and the World Bank to release urgent funding for Afghanistan to avert a humanitarian disaster and rebuild the country’s economy.
Miliband warned that an estimated $4 billion required to urgently supply the country with aid would likely rise to $10 billion next year if the country’s needs are not immediately met.
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