The Chinese Foreign Minister will visit Kabul on Thursday, March 24
A two-day conference of foreign ministers of neighboring countries is scheduled to be held in China next week to assess the situation in the country.
Amir Khan Mottaki has also been invited to the conference and is scheduled to attend, the Taliban’s foreign ministry said.
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told reporters in Islamabad in early February that Afghanistan’s six neighbors would discuss Afghanistan’s economic situation at a conference in China on March 30 and 31. And talk about the human condition.
Ahead of the China Conference, the Foreign Ministers of Afghanistan’s six neighbors Pakistan, Iran, China, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan met in Islamabad in September 2021 and again in October 2021. Had attended similar conferences in Tehran.
Earlier in the day, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Kabul and Islamabad on Saturday. Zamir Kabulov, the Russian president’s special envoy to Afghanistan, also visited Kabul during Vancouver’s visit.
The Chinese foreign minister and special envoy of the Russian president held talks in Kabul on Thursday with senior Taliban officials on security issues as well as economic issues. The Taliban’s first deputy prime minister, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, and acting interior minister, Sirajuddin Haqqani, have met with senior Chinese and Russian officials to reassure them that Afghan soil will not be used against any country.
Ahmad Saeedi, a political analyst, said that China was interested in investing in Afghanistan’s natural resources and had security concerns in Afghanistan. “China wants security, economic and political ties in Afghanistan. China wants He wants to use Afghanistan’s mines to ensure that his opponents do not pose a security threat through Afghanistan … that is, China has both economic and security goals. ”
The China conference comes at a time when the world is facing a humanitarian crisis arising from Russia’s military invasion of Ukraine and many countries have taken a stand either against Russia or in support of Russia.
Sayed Jawad Sajjadi, an international relations expert, also linked the visit of senior Chinese and Russian officials to Kabul to the war in Ukraine. Has taken its position. That said, the world is once again divided into two poles.
Mr Sajjadi said: “However, it must be said that the Taliban government is in a sensitive and fragile situation. Seven months after the formation of the Taliban government, the international community still does not recognize it. That is why the Taliban desperately need the government to recognize them and get out of this precarious situation. ”
Mr Sajjadi said it was difficult for the Taliban government to decide which way to go, as it had its own problems. He said the Taliban were trying to remain neutral.
The conference of Afghanistan’s neighbors in China is taking place at a time when the closure of girls’ schools from the seventh to twelfth grades has raised international criticism of the Taliban government and its immediate ouster. There have been international calls for the opening of girls’ schools.
The Taliban government reopened schools in Afghanistan after the winter break on the third day of the new year, but closed schools for girls above the sixth grade until a policy on the hijab was introduced.
