Chinese Foreign Ministry calls on Western countries to lift sanctions against Afghanistan

He made the corresponding statement in Tehran during his speech at the second ministerial meeting of the neighboring countries of Afghanistan.

"In addition to many other things, now they (the United States and Western countries. -

) must lift unilateral sanctions against Afghanistan so that its state assets can be used as soon as possible to meet the needs of the population," TASS quotes him.

Earlier, US Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said that the American side is not going to return the funds of the Central Bank of Afghanistan to the radical Taliban * movement.

In October, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki also announced that the US government has no plans to unfreeze the assets of the Central Bank of Afghanistan yet.

* "Taliban" - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation dated 02.14.2003.