The main diplomat of the Talibanes urged President Donald Trump to accept the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan and “commit” with him making a recent visit to Saudi Arabia, Afghan Outlet News reported Monday.
The “Minister of Foreign Affairs” Amir Khan Muttaqi, in Jeddah to strengthen ties with the Saudi government despite their lack of formal recognition of the Taliban, according to reports, which was the best “insecurity” in insecurity “in Afghanistan, Wattabilize Jihadist Board was the best of the United States for a long -term stable partner in the country.
Muttaqi’s comments are part of a larger campaign for the world to legitimize the Taliban, the jihadist terrorist organization that has governed Afghanistan without answering for almost four years. The jihadists Taliban controlled the country for much of the 1990s until the American invasion of September 11 at the end of 2001, after which they involved in an insurgency of two decades against the legitimate government backed by the United States.
That government fell in August 2021 as a result that former President Joe Biden violated an area that Trump had signed with the group duration of his first mandate that would have seen the departure of US troops in the country on May 1 of that year; Biden announced an extension of the war until September 2021. The Taliban responded to that violation by launching a generalized terrorist campaign against the weak Afghan army, which collapsed. The then President Ashraf Ghani fled Kabul almost immediately after the Taliban terrorists arrived in the capital on August 15, 2021.
While there are no individuals or entities, they have challenged the total control of the Taliban country since the fall of Kabul, no country has formally recognized the group, which is called the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan”, as the legitimate government of advice. Some nations, such as neighbors Iran and China, have accepted the Taliban as an “interim” governing body. Others, such as Russia, maintain diplomatic relations with the Taliban but, given their status as recognized terrorist organization, they cannot formalize those ties. Russia is expected to lift the designation of the Taliban terror this year.
The United States does not recognize Afghan Taliban as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO), he thought he recognizes the Pakistani Taliban separated as such and the Haqani Network, a terrorist group that serves as a link. Given that lack of designation, Taliban leaders have repeatedly encouraged Trump to legitimize the group.
“We told Americans that no power can control Afghanistan without the support of their people,” said Muttaqi, the main diplomat, he said Monday. “This truth must be recognized, and the commitment to this government must take place.”
Muttaqi said he had asked US officials to visit Kabul in March, with the aim of releasing US hostages, who involved jihadists.
“If there is insecurity and internal conflict in Afghanistan, the entire region will face disturbances,” he warned.
Muttaqi also took the opportunity to send a message to the Afghan diaspora who fears to return home due to the notory abuses of human rights of the Taliban, asking them to return home. And for the opponents of the Taliban at home, he advised: “For the sake of personal interests, it did not set fire to the nation.”
Tolo News observed that the Saudi government, which has not prominent that it has presented a coverage of the visit of Muttaqi in the state media in English, without or less, the owner of a “warm welcome” despite not formally recognizing the group. The outlet suggested that Stop was a “fundamental opportunity” for Taliban to prove to be worthy of recognition as a respectable government.
President Trump maintained communication with the Taliban through his first term, thought that communication was not always cordial. In 2022, Trump revealed a dramatic moment in which he sent Co -founder Talibán Abdul Ghani a photo of his house, which implies that he could easily bombard him.
“I sent a photo of his house,” Trump told the interviewer Sean Hannity. “Hey, he said:” But why do you send me a photo of my house? “I said:” You will have to solve it. “
Trump also threatened to “hit you [the Taliban] Hardly that any country has been beaten. “
Subsequently, Trump negotiated a plan for the withdrawal of Afghanistan that the Taliban agreed until President Biden violated him, one that the Taliban leaders remembered with love when Trump was re -elected in 2024.
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Taliban leaders expressed hope of “tangible progress in relations between the two countries” under Trump and the opening of “a new chapter of relations in the light of mutual interaction.”
President Trump sent two representatives to Kabul, Adam Boehler, a special envoy of hostages and former ambassador to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad in March to negotiate the release of Americans detained in the country. The Taliban have released four US citizens from Trump toke office in January.
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