The European Union Parliament on Thursday in an adopted resolution on the human rights situation in Afghanistan condemned the countries that uphold the Islamic Emirate by normalizing relations.

EU Parliament also criticized the new law of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice announced recently by the Islamic Emirate.

EU has also demanded new sanctions against the IEA.

The resolution stated: “MEPs want the EU to support the recognition of gender apartheid as a crime against humanity and call for Afghanistan’s de facto authorities to be held accountable, through the International Criminal Court (ICC) investigation and the establishment of a UN Independent Investigative Mechanism.”

The resolution, however, urges the EU and donor states to increase humanitarian aid and funding to support basic needs, livelihoods and Afghan civil society.

The resolution was adopted by 565 votes in favor, 8 against and 43 abstentions.

In the meantime, IEA’s spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid has said that the imposition of sanctions and pressure by some countries on the caretaker government has failed as in the past and the Afghan government wants positive interaction with all countries of the world.

“The European Union is experiencing the failed ways that they have already taken this path and have not gotten results,” said Mujahid.

“The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan considers positive interaction as the only solution to all problems,” he added.

Earlier, the UN Security Council also expressed serious concern about the implementation of IEA’s Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice law in a meeting regarding the situation in Afghanistan.

IEA, however, regarding the criticisms of the implementation of vice and virtue said that this law was compiled based on Islamic Sharia and considered opposing it as a contradiction with Islamic Sharia.