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WHO chief Tedros meets with Taliban to 'protect health' of Afghans

by Anadolu Agency

ISLAMABAD Sep 21, 2021 - 3:35 pm GMT+3
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (C) visits the Park View Villas, a Qatar's 2022 FIFA World Cup residence in Doha, housing Afghan evacuees, on Sept. 19, 2021. (AFP Photo)
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (C) visits the Park View Villas, a Qatar's 2022 FIFA World Cup residence in Doha, housing Afghan evacuees, on Sept. 19, 2021. (AFP Photo)
by Anadolu Agency Sep 21, 2021 3:35 pm
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The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) met with the Taliban leadership in Afghanistan on Tuesday to explore ways and means to support the country grappling with frozen funds and mounting humanitarian needs.

After landing in Kabul a day earlier, WHO director-general Tedros Ghebreyesus met with the Taliban’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to discuss the humanitarian situation in the country.

"I'm in #Afghanistan with @WHOEMRO Director Ahmed Al Mandhari. Protecting the health of the Afghan people is of the utmost priority for @WHO," he wrote on Twitter. "We will visit health facilities meet with @WHOAfghanistan staff, health workers, and Taliban leadership on these vital issues," he added.

(L-R) Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the U.N. for Afghanistan Deborah Lyons, WHO regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean Ahmed al-Mandhari, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Taliban's Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund attend a meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan in this image uploaded to social media, Sept. 20, 2021. (Reuters Photo)
(L-R) Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the U.N. for Afghanistan Deborah Lyons, WHO regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean Ahmed al-Mandhari, WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and Taliban's Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund attend a meeting in Kabul, Afghanistan in this image uploaded to social media, Sept. 20, 2021. (Reuters Photo)

"Delays in humanitarian aid and the creation of ‘similar barriers’ undermine the status and reputation of the international community,” the acting foreign minister told the WHO chief, according to Ahmadullah Muttaqi, a Taliban official. "Sanctions and pressures show that international humanitarian aid is in the hands of the ‘powerful few,’” the acting minister added.

Tedros also met with the Taliban’s head of cabinet ministers, Mohammad Hasan Akhund, and his deputies Monday to get an overview of the situation in the country.

According to the state-run Bakhtar news agency, Tedros said the WHO was working to increase its assistance to Afghanistan to prevent a humanitarian "catastrophe.”

"The previous administration was corrupt, but the international community was helping it extensively. Now that the Islamic Emirate system is in place and free from corruption, the international community needs to provide more assistance,” Akhund told the WHO chief, according to Bakhtar.

The Taliban leaders have promised to remove "impediments” to aid, to protect humanitarian workers, and to safeguard aid offices, according to a 15-point proposal addressed to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), and signed by the Taliban’s acting minister of foreign affairs. The Sept. 10 statement, which has circulated among aid groups this week, also echoed previous pledges to commit to "all rights of women ... in the light of religion and culture.”

A humanitarian catastrophe looms in Afghanistan amid a freeze on aid and funds, said several aid agencies earlier this month. As per the OCHA estimates, the country has the second-highest number of people facing emergency levels of hunger in the world, with an estimated 5.5 million children projected to face crisis levels of hunger in the second half of this year.

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