United Nations: Afghanistan on the brink of humanitarian catastrophe

According to IRNA on Thursday, the UN envoy told a news conference that he had told the Security Council that with the arrival of winter, when problems could lead to loss of life, the international community and countries in the region should help Afghanistan to continue.

“Now is not the time to turn away from the Afghan people,” he told the conference on Wednesday. I stressed to the Security Council that the international community and the countries of the region need to continue to help the Afghan people as they face a difficult winter with major problems not only with food shortages but also with the economic crisis.

The UN official added that the Afghan people should not feel rejected or forgotten by the international community or any other country because of Taliban rule. We must find ways to prevent human catastrophe and the loss of human lives that may occur in winter. We can prevent this catastrophe.

The World Food Program (WFP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (WFP) said in a report that 19 million Afghans, or 47% of the country’s population, experienced severe food insecurity between September and October this year.

This situation is expected to worsen in the future. The report predicts that between November 2021 and March next year, approximately 22.8 million Afghans will experience “high levels of severe food insecurity,” accounting for 55 percent of the country’s population.

The Washington Post reports that the lack of international assistance has contributed to the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan.

Lyon said Wednesday that the main cause of the impending humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan is the Taliban’s financial embargo, which has crippled the banking system and affected all aspects of the country’s economy.

Tolo News previously reported that the Taliban Foreign Ministry had written to the US Congress asking for the release of US assets frozen by the US.

“The biggest challenge facing Afghanistan is financial insecurity, and the roots of this concern go back to the US government freezing the assets of our people,” Amir Khan Mottaqi, acting Taliban cabinet secretary of state, wrote in a letter to members of Congress.