The Taliban on Tuesday thanked the international community for the $ 1.2 billion pledged aid to Afghanistan and urged the United States to be more generous.
“We appreciate and welcome the world’s commitment of nearly $ 1 billion in aid and ask them to continue to help Afghanistan,” said Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting minister of the new Afghan government.
“The United States is a great country, it must show generosity,” he added at a news conference.
The United States on Monday pledged about $ 64 million (€ 54 million) to humanitarian organizations working in Afghanistan as part of a UN initiative. By comparison, Washington has spent $ 2 billion (1.7 billion euros) in twenty years of war in the country.
“The Islamic Emirate,” as the Taliban call Afghanistan, “helped the United States facilitate its evacuations. But instead of being grateful, they talk about imposing sanctions on our people,” said Amir Khan Muttaqi. referring to the more than 123,000 people exfiltrated from Afghanistan in late August during a giant airlift.
Since the Taliban came to power on August 15, Afghanistan has been partially paralyzed by stopping financial flows abroad, injecting money into an economy shattered by more than 40 years of wars. .
On Monday, the UN reported that donor countries pledged a total of $ 1.2 billion (€ 1.015 billion) in aid to Afghanistan, without specifying the amount it would allocate to emergencies.
“The Islamic Emirate” assured that “it will do everything it can to give this aid to the needy in a fully transparent manner.”