the representatives of die four countries — known as the extended troika — also “met with senior Taliban representatives on the sidelines” of die meeting in Islamabad, according to a Joint statement of 15 points released by the Ministry of Pakistan of Foreign Affairs.
The meeting comes weeks after a similar discussion was held in Moscow, which was not attended by the United States. US Special Representative Tom West was in attendance on Thursday extended troika talks.
The extended troika “(e) expressed deep concern over the serious humanitarian and economic situation in Afghanistan and repeated immovable support for the people of Afghanistan,” and “(w) welcomed the international community’s urgent provision of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan and expressed its grave concern over the possible for an economic collapse and a significantly worsening humanitarian crisis and a new refugee wave.”
David Beasley of the World Food Program said on Thursday that “the world’worst humanitarian crisis unfolds’ in Afghanistan, where? more than 22 million people could be risk of famine.
The joint statement “(a)recognized international concerns of humanitarian actors over the country’s serious liquidity challenges and determined to stay focused on measures to relieve access to legitimate banking services.”
The Taliban has no access to the Afghan central bank are billions of dollar in reserves, most of it of die are frozen in The United States.
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