Taliban: The United States chose to negotiate war from the beginning.
The Taliban’s foreign ministry chief said diplomacy was not a tool to impose ideology, adding that Mullah Omar, the Taliban’s founder in 2001, wanted to negotiate with the United States, but they chose war.
“The weak government in Afghanistan is not in anyone’s interest,” said Amir Khan Mottaqi, the Taliban’s acting foreign minister, at the Antalya Diplomatic Council in Turkey.
At a meeting today (Saturday, March 12) attended by a member of the Turkish House of Representatives and Uzbek Foreign Minister Abdulaziz Kamelov, he said that countries around the world should work with the group instead of putting pressure on the Taliban.
In his statement, Mottaki called on the world to work with the Taliban in economic self-sufficiency and in stable Afghanistan. He also called for the release of frozen central bank reserves and the lifting of sanctions.
The head of the Taliban’s foreign ministry told a meeting today that it was not clear what kind of government the world wanted in Afghanistan.
“What kind of government does the world want from us?” Does he want it like the communist government? Is the government like the one formed under the leadership of Hamid Karzai in Bonn? “Or like the government of Ashraf Ghani, which divided all the tribes and the result of its elections was not known in one year?”
Mottaki added that the Taliban government has met all the conditions for identification. He said that the governments that emerged through coups and revolutions are now official; But why does the world not recognize the Taliban?
Regarding the inclusiveness of the government in Afghanistan, Mottaki said that the Taliban government is now inclusive and has ministers from every ethnic group and province. He added that reforms in the government “are inevitable; “But what is important for Afghanistan is security.”
In another part of his speech, he stressed that diplomacy is not a tool to impose ideology and should be used to prevent war.
Amir Khan Mottaqi said that Mullah Omar, the founder of the Taliban in 2001, wanted to negotiate with the United States, but they chose war.
