He made this statement at a consultative meeting of special representatives of the European Union and Central Asian countries on Afghanistan in Tashkent.
“Uzbekistan stands for the speedy unfreezing of Afghanistan's assets in foreign banks, without which the current authorities of this country will not be able to bring it out of the deepest crisis.
At the same time, it is necessary to realize that these financial resources belong to the entire Afghan people, and not to their individual representatives, ”TASS quoted Irgasheva as saying.
On February 11, it became known that US President Joe Biden signed a decree blocking $ 7 billion of assets of the Central Bank of Afghanistan stored in US banks.
Afghan assets held in US bank accounts were sent to a single special trust fund at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
The official representative of the Taliban movement*, which came to power in Afghanistan, called this decision a theft, which speaks of "the highest level of human and moral decline of the country and people."
* "Taliban" - the organization is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities.