Guterres expresses his "deep concern"

The UAE condemns the Taliban's decision to ban university education for women and girls

Female students stop in front of the "Taliban" security personnel who prevented them from entering the university in Kabul.

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The Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation for Political Affairs and Permanent Representative of the State to the United Nations, Ambassador Lana Nusseibeh, affirmed the UAE's strong condemnation of the recent "Taliban" decision to ban university education for women and girls throughout Afghanistan, which is the latest example of the restrictions imposed since August 2021, in order to Depriving Afghan women and girls of public life.

The decision threatens the international community's efforts to engage with the "Taliban" in a way that serves the interests of the Afghan people.

The UAE stresses that the decision, and the previous ban on secondary education for girls, constitutes a violation of basic human rights and contradicts the teachings of the Islamic religion, and therefore it must be retracted immediately.

The country affirmed its firm commitment to support the sovereignty, stability, security and prosperity of Afghanistan, in cooperation with regional and international partners.

In the same context, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, expressed his "deep concern" about the "Taliban" decision, calling on the hard-line movement to "ensure equal access to education at all levels."

"The Secretary-General reaffirms that the denial of education not only violates the equal rights of women and girls, but will also have a devastating impact on the country's future," Guterres' spokesman, Stephane Dujarric, said in a statement.

The Taliban government announced that it had imposed, until further notice, a ban on girls' education in universities across Afghanistan.

The ban on higher education for girls and women comes less than three months after thousands of them took entrance exams to universities across the country.

Yesterday, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken expressed the United States' strong dissatisfaction with the "Taliban" decision, and added in a tweet on his Twitter account: "Afghan women deserve better.

Afghanistan deserves better than this.

Undoubtedly, the (Taliban's) quest for acceptance by the international community has suffered a setback.

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