The Secretary-General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, who is currently in Afghanistan, met with the Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Taliban interim government and promised to provide humanitarian assistance to the people of this country next winter.
According to the Pak Sahafat news agency, quoted by Sputnik, Abdul Qahar Balkhi, spokesman for the Taliban interim foreign ministry, said the altruistic organization of the Norwegian Refugee Council had promised to provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan this winter.
Ian Egland, Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, also met with Amir Khan Mottaqi, Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan. The two stressed the need to separate the issue of humanitarian aid from politics.
Balkhi tweeted: “Mr. Egland praised security in Kabul and pledged to deliver humanitarian aid in the coming winter, adding that it is difficult to deliver aid to those in need due to economic sanctions.”
England has previously said that Afghanistan‘s banking system is collapsing due to a lack of cash and that the economic consequences could be catastrophic.
He said in a statement: Afghanistan’s economy is out of control. The formal banking system may collapse at any moment due to a lack of cash. I have spoken to families who tell me that they live on tea and small pieces of stale bread.
Egland also said that Afghanistan’s economic downturn was fraught with a worsening humanitarian situation in which even the most basic services would fail.