The Afghan interim government formed by the Taliban announced that it intends to implement the constitution of the monarchy except for what contradicts Islamic law, and in the meantime, Acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaki met the Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Afghanistan Deborah Lyons.

The Afghan Foreign Ministry said that the meeting of the UN representative with Minister Mottaki discussed the continuation of cooperation with the United Nations, the security situation and other issues, and Mottaki also expressed his appreciation for the assistance provided by the United Nations mission to his country.

Afghan sources said that the UN envoy confirmed that economic sanctions have a detrimental impact on the mission's services in Afghanistan.

On the other hand, Minister of Justice in the Afghan caretaker government, Abdul Hakim Sharia, said that the Taliban movement will implement the constitution of the era of the late King Muhammad Zahir Shah for a temporary period, with the exception of provisions that contradict the principles of Islamic Sharia.

Muhammad Zahir Shah is the last king to rule Afghanistan before the overthrow of his political regime in 1973.

Zahir Shah had presented a new constitution in Afghanistan in 1964, whose features focused on achieving modern democracy, holding parliamentary elections, and approving women's rights and civil rights.

Al-Jazeera correspondent in Afghanistan Hamidullah Muhammad said that the movement believes that this constitution is very close to its principles and the principles of Islamic Sharia.

Afghanistan's speech to the United Nations

In another context, the Afghan mission to the United Nations said that it had withdrawn from delivering Afghanistan's speech at the United Nations General Assembly, in order to protect national interests and in order to continue long-term cooperation with the United Nations.

She added that Ambassador Ghulam Ishaq Zai, Permanent Representative of Afghanistan to the United Nations, was scheduled to address the General Assembly, but the mission decided, in consultation with a number of prominent members of the international organization, not to speak at this session.

In recent days, controversy has taken place over who will address Afghanistan during the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly, which started last Tuesday, after the Taliban movement regained control of power in Kabul last month and President Ashraf Ghani fled abroad.

Last Friday, Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, said that Afghanistan's representative, Ambassador Zai, will address his country to the General Assembly.

But Guterres received an official letter from the foreign minister of the Taliban government, the caretaker of business in Afghanistan, Amir Khan Muttaki, requesting to deliver his country's address to the General Assembly, and confirming the end of Ambassador Zai's mission as Afghanistan's representative to the United Nations.

international investigations

On another topic, the new Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, moved - yesterday, Monday - to re-launch an investigation into Afghanistan, which will focus on the Taliban and the "Islamic State-Khorasan Province" while not giving the supposed US crimes a priority.

And a statement said that the request was submitted to the judges of the court in light of developments since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in a lightning operation weeks ago.

Prosecutors had previously also looked into suspected crimes committed by US and Afghan government forces, but the court's chief prosecutor, Karim Khan - who began a nine-year mission six months ago - said they now "won't make (this) a priority." Because of the lack of resources, they will instead focus on "the scale and nature of the crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court".

Afghan human rights activist Houria Mosaddegh, who has been helping victims in support of the ICC investigation for many years, called the announcement "an insult to thousands of other victims of crimes by Afghan government forces, US forces and NATO."