A US State Department official told AFP that Afghan embassies and consulates were under severe financial pressure and could not access bank accounts.
A US State Department official told AFP that Afghan embassies and consulates were under severe financial pressure and could not access bank accounts.
Afghan diplomats in various parts of the world who do not recognize the Taliban face difficulties in maintaining their activities and pressure to vacate their seats for Taliban-appointed representatives.
This was stated in a report by the AFP news agency.
According to the report, former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who has appointed 60 ambassadors or heads of embassies in various countries, has not agreed to serve in the Taliban government.
Not a single country has recognized the Taliban government since taking power in Afghanistan in August last year, and AFP says the international community is considering providing assistance to Afghans in times of humanitarian and economic crisis. How to deal with the Taliban.
The Afghan ambassador to Norway, Yousuf Ghafoorzai, said in an AFP report that the operation had been sustained under “difficult circumstances”.
He said that increasing humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan and stabilizing the situation in Afghanistan would play an important role in maintaining political dialogue.
AFP says the United States has frozen Afghanistan’s assets since the Taliban took power and the international community has cut off financial aid to the country, which covers most of Afghanistan’s expenses.
Ahead of the report, Ghafoorzai said his colleagues had no contact with the Taliban government and that staff had not been paid for months.
The Afghan embassy and consulate in the United States will close in the coming weeks, AFP reports.
A State Department official told AFP that Afghan embassies and consulates were under severe financial pressure and could not access bank accounts.
State Department officials said the Afghan embassy and Washington have made arrangements to close the embassy’s operations regularly and keep the embassy’s assets safe until the resumption of operations.
AFP says Afghan diplomats worldwide have reduced their activities, reduced energy and food costs, and relocated to smaller buildings and increased service fees to increase such revenue.
The Afghan ambassador to New Delhi, Farid Mamondzi, told AFP that the embassy was not receiving any financial support from Kabul.
He said that due to non-payment of financial assistance, the embassy staff had not been paid for the past few months, the number of staff had been reduced and expenses had been reduced to a minimum.
It is not yet clear how long the Taliban or the international community will accept visas and other documents from Afghan embassies, AFP reports.
The Taliban has appointed ambassadors to Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Iran and China, according to AFP. Russia has offered to host two or three diplomats, according to AFP.
The Taliban have not commented on the incident, AFP reported.
