According to the expert, statistics from recent years show that annual assistance to Afghanistan amounts to about five billion US dollars, but this sum is not enough to satisfy the needs of the country’s population
Afghanistan may face a food crisis under the Taliban (outlawed in Russia) rule because this movement is under sanctions of both individual states and the United Nations, Andrei Kortunov, Director General of the Russian International Affairs Council, told TASS on Monday.
"A food crisis and famine in Afghanistan are not ruled out. Indeed, Afghanistan is now ...
... Ryabkov, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation, suggests that the United States released four Taliban members from Guantanamo in 2014, all of whom were on the Security Council sanctions list, to send them to the Middle East.
Ivan Timofeev:
Afghanistan in the Grip of Sanctions
This was quite in line with the U.S. policy incepted back in 2010 and aimed at engaging in
direct dialogue with the Taliban
. This
led
to the UN Security Council Committee—established pursuant to Resolution 1267 on sanctions against the ...
Restrictive measures against the Taliban now affect the country as a whole
The fall of the Afghan government amid the withdrawal of American troops and the capture of most of Afghanistan by the Taliban raised a number of questions regarding international and unilateral sanctions. Since 1999, the Taliban have been under UN sanctions. Restrictive measures have been applied to the movement by the United States, the European Union and a number of other jurisdictions, its leaders and individual branches. The existing sanctions ...
