Condemns U.S. Occupation of Frozen Assets in Afghanistan
U.S. President Biden signed an executive order a few days ago, planning to use half of the frozen assets of the Central Bank of Afghanistan in the United States to compensate the victims of the "9.11" incident.
Many governments, media and scholars in Afghanistan and other countries have condemned it, pointing out that this is a hegemonic act of illegally occupying Afghan assets, which will bring a huge blow to the Afghan economy and people's livelihood, and call for the return of these assets to the Afghan people as soon as possible.
Afghan interim government deputy spokesman Samangjani said on February 13 that the US government's decision was hasty and unjust.
Currently, Afghanistan is facing serious economic problems, the richest country steals money from the poorest country, which exposes the extremely dark moral character of the United States.
Samangjani said that the Afghan people did not participate in the "9.11" incident and were not the perpetrators of the attack. It is completely unjust to use Afghan assets to compensate the "9.11" victims.
The United States has committed serious crimes against Afghanistan. The 20-year war in Afghanistan has caused the Afghan people to suffer tremendously, but no one has come to compensate for their losses.
Mohammad Naeem, spokesman for the Taliban's political office in Doha, said in a social media post that the theft of frozen assets of the Afghan people showed that the United States has "degraded to the lowest degree of humanity and morality."
Former Afghan President Karzai said that the Afghan people feel the pain of the Americans who lost their loved ones in the "9.11" incident, but Afghanistan is also a victim of terrorism.
Withholding the foreign exchange reserves of the Central Bank of Afghanistan by the US government is tantamount to a "massacre" of the Afghan people.
Torek Farhadi, a former financial adviser to the Afghan government, said that the Biden administration's actions violated international law and international morality, which will make the Afghan economy even more difficult, exacerbate the livelihood difficulties of the Afghan people, and cause serious humanitarian disasters.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zakharova said on the 14th that Russia considers the decision of the United States to be absurd.
The relevant military operations in Afghanistan by the United States and its NATO allies have made the current humanitarian situation in Afghanistan very difficult. The United States is actually exacerbating the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan and creating obstacles for the new Afghan government, which is currently trying to restore the normal life of the people.
The Pakistani Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement emphasizing that the frozen foreign exchange reserves of the Central Bank of Afghanistan belong to all Afghan citizens, and the use of these funds should be determined by Afghanistan itself.
The Afghan people are facing severe economic and humanitarian challenges.
The Pakistani side has always stressed the need for the international community to take prompt action to help Afghanistan recover its economy.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Khatibzad said at a press conference in Tehran on the 14th that the US looting of Afghan assets was a "shameful and inhumane" act.
He said that the US invasion of Afghanistan not only caused huge losses to the unarmed Afghan people, but also spared the remaining assets of the Afghan people.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said on the 14th that Afghanistan's overseas assets belong to the Afghan people and should be returned to Afghanistan for the well-being of the Afghan people.
The U.S. arbitrarily distributed and even appropriated it through domestic decrees, once again exposing the true face of the power and hegemony under the mask of the U.S. so-called "rules-based international order".
The US is the initiator of the Afghan crisis.
China calls on the U.S. side to reflect on its own merits, earnestly shoulder its due international responsibilities, fully lift the freeze on Afghan assets in the U.S. and unilateral sanctions as soon as possible, make up for the harm caused to the Afghan people with concrete actions, and stop doing things that make the Afghan people even worse. matter.
Statistics from the United Nations World Food Program show that 22.8 million Afghans face serious food security problems, more than half of the total population of Afghanistan.
Another 3.5 million Afghans have been displaced without warm shelter or winter supplies.
A commentary published on the Qatar Al Jazeera website argued that the U.S. approach undermined the possibility of achieving economic stability in Afghanistan and hindered the Afghan people's opportunities for development and prosperity.
American political scientist Barnett Rubin said that this is a robbery by the richest country in the world against the poorest country in the world.
Boyle, a professor of international law at the University of Illinois in the United States, said that the Biden administration's handling of the Afghan central bank's assets in the United States is a complete act of theft for any reason, and they have no right to manipulate Afghanistan's assets at will.
A large-scale demonstration took place in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, on the 15th. People from all walks of life gathered to protest the decision of the US government to plunder Afghan assets.
The demonstrators issued a statement saying that the United States' actions violated international law and demanded that Biden cancel the relevant executive order and return the frozen Afghan assets.
Abdul Rahman, head of the local chamber of commerce in Kabul, told this reporter that the Afghan economy, especially small and medium-sized enterprises, urgently needs funds to resume operations. The actions of the US government have seriously damaged Afghanistan's economic prospects and people's well-being.
(This newspaper, Islamabad, February 17th)
Our reporter Cheng Shijie