The Chinese Foreign Ministry said it was working with Afghanistan’s neighbors to expedite the delivery of humanitarian aid to Afghans. The ministry also called for the release of Afghanistan’s frozen assets. “Afghanistan is moving from crisis to order,” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told a news conference in Beijing on Monday, March 7, referring to the rise to power of the Taliban. The Taliban entered Kabul on August 15, 2021, overthrew the republican regime and withdrew tens of thousands of people, and cut off direct international aid to Afghanistan. “The United States withdrew from Afghanistan irresponsibly, leaving Afghans in a dangerous humanitarian crisis and creating major security challenges for the region,” he said. President Joe Biden has repeatedly backed the decision to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, stressing that he did not want the 20-year war to be transferred to another US president.
The United States has frozen more than 9 billion in assets in Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban, officials say.
But Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Li called on US officials to release Afghanistan’s frozen assets in the United States as soon as possible and to allow unilateral conditions to transfer them to Afghans. Sanctions should also be lifted. ”
This is not the first time China has demanded the release of Afghanistan’s frozen assets. Earlier, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan and his Chinese counterpart in Beijing had demanded the release of the assets. President Joe Biden recently issued a decree allocating درې 3.5 billion from the frozen assets of the National Bank of Afghanistan to the families of the victims of the 9/11 attacks. But officials say the court will make the final decision.
The Taliban government in Afghanistan has condemned Mr. Biden’s decision. Amnesty International also called the decision “irrational and unjust” and a “mistake.” The group said the families of 9/11 victims wanted “justice, retribution, and accountability” for the horrific crimes, but said the money did not go to the people who carried out the attacks. These are the assets of the people of Afghanistan, the “people who are now very hungry”.
The United Nations says poverty in Afghanistan has risen sharply in recent months, with 97 percent of the population living on less than 2 dollars a day and one in every two children under the age of five is malnourished.
