Posted on 10/12/2021 9:02:04 AM PDT by elpadre
The Taliban held their first face-to-face talks with a joint US-EU delegation Tuesday in Qatar as Brussels pledged one billion euros ($1.2 billion) in aid for Afghanistan.
The hardline Islamists are seeking recognition, as well as assistance to avoid a humanitarian disaster, after they returned to power in August following the withdrawal of US troops after 20 years of war.
UN chief Antonio Guterres earlier urged the world to donate to drought-hit and impoverished Afghanistan to head off economic collapse, but also slammed the Taliban’s “broken” promises to Afghan women and girls. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced the EU aid package, meant “to avert a major humanitarian and socio-economic collapse”, at a virtual G20 summit hosted by Italy on Tuesday.
She stressed the funds are “direct support” for Afghans and would be channelled to international organizations working on the ground, not to the Taliban’s interim government which Brussels does not recognise. “We have been clear about our conditions for any engagement with the Afghan authorities, including on the respect of human rights,” she said.
“So far, the reports speak for themselves. But the Afghan people should not pay the price of the Taliban’s actions.”
The Taliban badly need assistance as Afghanistan’s economy is in a parlous state with most aid cut off even as winter nears, food prices rising and unemployment spiking.
EU countries are wary at the prospect of a surge of Afghan asylum-seekers trying to enter the bloc, as happened in 2015 with Syrians fleeing their war. Brussels’ calculation is that donating money to help stabilize Afghanistan and assist countries between it and Europe could stem any flow.
As in N.Korea, the rest of the world will try to feed the populace and thus help prop up a hardline terrorist dictatorship.
Why would anyone in the West send these guys any buck$?
There’s plenty of room for goats and sheep in Afghanistan.
And vegetable patches too.
Medicine can be bought and shipped by container.
No cash should be given to the Taliban by Western countries.
Saudi Arabia should be rolling in the cash now with high oil prices.
We gave them the green light and armed their military, Europe gives 'em money, is the pope next with his imprimatur ?
Y'all better get saved and get out'a here before it REALLY blows !
Does the Taliban have to promise not to chop off too many heads or hang too many people?
Maybe promise not to throw homosexuals from tall buildings?
Limit the number of sex slaves?
I’m willing to bet my best prayer rug, the one with polka dot fringes, that Brandon will be giving them 20 or so billion of our money. On the other hand, if Brandon is successful in his endeavors I might be needing that rug.
...true.....but I may have missed something, but has there been any mention at all of the hundreds of American citizens being held hostage by these rag-head barbarians....?? jus’ askin’ ....
Nope, give us back our fear first or sell it yourself you God forsaken beasts
Gear not fear
I want to start my own country. I’ll then pledge 1.2 CENTS to those ragheads. We can talk terms later. They pay for the dinners.
Will the U.S. include the equipment donation and infrastructure upgrades already done? 😕
How are they going to a count for the money and how it’s spent?
What happens when they learn that all the Taliban leadership are buying villas in Dubai and Doha?
Not a damn thing.
Interesting that not a word is said about the US position and financial hand-out.
Go ahead and roll over again you stupid a@@holes.
I think it is time to help disband the EU.
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