The US State Department said that a US delegation discussed with Taliban officials efforts to release billions of dollars from the reserves of the Afghan Central Bank.
The ministry added in a statement yesterday, Thursday, that the meeting was attended by Thomas West, the US special representative for Afghanistan, and Brian Nelson, the undersecretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence.
The US State Department indicated that the meeting, which was held on Wednesday, discussed efforts to enable the use of $ 3.5 billion from the reserves of the Central Bank of Afghanistan.
She noted that the US delegation expressed to Taliban officials the need to address the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan.
The United States has not recognized the Taliban's rule in Afghanistan since the movement seized power in August 2021.
Billions of dollars in assets held abroad were then frozen, and Western international aid on which the country had depended for 20 years had ceased, and today it has come by train since the Taliban returned to power.
And last February, US President Joe Biden froze $7 billion in funds from the Afghan Central Bank;
Deposited with US financial institutions, he said he would allocate half of it to compensation claims by the families of the victims of the September 11 attacks.
Afghanistan is suffering an economic crisis after various countries froze its assets deposited abroad and cut off aid, while the currency collapsed.
The United Nations has warned that half of the country is threatened by food shortages.