“We are talking about the country's national assets, not the Taliban movement *, who are now in power,” RIA Novosti quotes the diplomat.

According to him, of the 9 billion financial assets of Afghanistan, more than 8 billion are in the United States and another 1.5 billion are frozen in Europe.

“This is absolutely outrageous, it must be unfrozen,” Kabulov said.

He considered it hypocritical that Washington's statements that the United States is concerned about the welfare of the Afghan people in the context of the situation.

Earlier, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said that the US government has no plans to unfreeze the assets of the Central Bank of Afghanistan.

* "Taliban" - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of February 14, 2003.