UN envoy warns of Afghanistan destruction without peace

UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Nicholas Haysom warned that Afghanistan will fall apart without peace.

Nicholas Haysom is said to consider the continuation of war in Afghanistan unacceptable and emphasized that if the country does not achieve peace and stability in the current year, there will be no international assistance for stabilizing the country.

the top United Nations official in Afghanistan said that Afghan leaders should incorporate people’s views and proposed solutions into all efforts aimed at stabilizing the country. “My firm conviction is that peace will come to those who clearly demand the conditions to allow its establishment,” said the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan, Nicholas Haysom, in his comments at the conference.

The Afghan People’s Dialogue on Peace, undertaken and led by 11 Afghan civil society networks and the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC), involved consultation with more than 6,000 people.

Mr. Haysom noted that one tives of the Institute. Welcoming the establishment of AICS, Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Abdullah Abdullah, said civil society has played a significant role in transforming Afghan society, fosterof the most important findings of the three-year process was an understanding that “what peace requires is more than a temporary silence of the guns but the active presence of social justice.”

“In peace and reconciliation processes, UNAMA shares the view that human rights cannot be sacrificed, and that women must play a strong and active role, so that peace is both a top-down and bottom-up process,” said Mr. Haysom.

UN envoy also considers Afghanistan neighboring countries pressures on brining Taliban to the negotiation table essential.

Afghan military analysts are also said that until United Nation and the international community do not persuade Pakistan to close terrorist havens, Afghanistan war would not be ended.

The Peace Talks process with Taliban is the only opening that Afghanistan war ends. But Taliban have repeatedly respond the Afghanistan government with their bloody attacks regarding the peace talks.
Reported by Fawad Naseri