UN to hold meeting on Afghanistan in near future

UNAMA’s political head, Scott Smith, has said that the United Nations will convene an international conference on Afghanistan in the near future, Office of Chief of Staff of the prime minister announced in a statement on Monday.

Smith said this in meeting with Mawlawi Zakir, chief of staff of the prime minister’s political deputy, according to the statement.

“The representative of UNAMA mentioned that a major international conference about Afghanistan will be held soon, in which more than 20 countries will participate and prominent figures of Afghanistan will also be present, and we are trying to get Emirate also invited,” said Hassan Haqyar, the head of the press office of the political deputy of the prime minister.

IEA’s spokesman said that they have not yet received an invitation to the meeting, but will participate if invited.

“If the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is invited, it will of course participate, but it does not turn out that it will be invited because the issue of recognition by the United Nations still remains and Afghanistan’s seat has not been handed over yet,” said Zabihullah Mujahid, IEA’s spokesman.

The first round of the meeting was held at in Doha in May this year.

Experts say that the presence of IEA in such meetings is important.

“These meetings are to get out of the current crisis in Afghanistan. In this second round of meeting, the absence of delegations from the Islamic Emirate of the Taliban will undoubtedly not be positive, so the presence of the Taliban delegations is a must and decisive in the meetings where solutions to the Afghanistan crisis is seriously discussed and debated,” said Karim Amin, a member of Hizb-e-Islami’s leadership council.