Members of the United Nations Security Council at a recent meeting were divided on whether to grant immunity to some Taliban officials from travel bans, while China and Russia have backed it.
The foreign news agency AFP has said with reference to diplomatic sources that some members of the Security Council have based the Taliban’s violation of human rights and failure to fight terrorism.
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According to diplomatic sources, in the recent meeting of the Security Council, China and Russia have supported the extension of immunity from travel bans, while most Western countries believe that more Taliban leaders should be removed from the list of immunity.
While presiding over the Security Council meeting last week, China said that exemptions from travel bans are necessary, linking them to human rights would be harmful.
In the meeting, the death of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone attack in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, has also raised questions about the Taliban’s promise not to shelter terrorists.
The Security Council’s 15-member Sanctions Committee extended the immunity granted to Taliban leaders for another two months in June, but considering the ban on girls’ education and violations of women’s rights, two officials of the Ministry of Education. International travel was not exempted.
The Taliban’s Acting Deputy Minister of Education Syed Ahmad Shahid Khel and Deputy Minister for Higher Education Abdul Baqi Haqqani were again banned from travel, however, the Taliban’s Foreign Minister Amir Khan Mutaqi is also included in the list of thirteen leaders who are exempted from the travel ban. has been given.
In a statement on Twitter, the spokesperson of the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on the Security Council not to use sanctions as a tool for pressure and to lift sanctions on all Taliban leaders.
It should be noted that under the Security Council Resolution 2011, sanctions are imposed on 135 Taliban leaders, which include travel ban and freezing of assets.
Thirteen of the leaders were granted an exemption from the travel ban to travel abroad to meet with foreign officials, but the exemption expired last Friday when Ireland objected to a further month’s extension. picked up.
