Desk Report
Publish: 04 Dec 2021, 10:15 pm
French President Emmanuel Macron || Photo: Collected
Several European
countries are working on opening up a joint diplomatic mission in Afghanistan
that would enable their ambassadors to return to the country, French President
Emmanuel Macron said on Saturday.
Western countries have
been grappling with how to engage with the Taliban after they took over
Afghanistan in a lightning advance in August as U.S.-led forces were completing
their pullout, reports Reuters.
The United States and
other Western countries shut their embassies and withdrew their diplomats as
the Taliban seized Kabul, following which the militants declared an interim
government whose top members are under U.S. and U.N. sanctions.
"We are thinking
of an organization between several European countries... a common location for
several Europeans, which would allow our ambassadors to be present,"
Macron told reporters in Doha before heading to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.
The United States,
European countries and others are reluctant to formally recognize the
Pashtun-dominated Taliban, accusing them of backtracking on pledges of
political and ethnic inclusivity and to uphold the rights of women and
minorities.
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