UN's soft spot for Taliban, name remains on terrorist list

 
The UN Security Council has quietly removed the word "Taliban" from its statements, naming groups that support terrorists operating from Afghanistan.

According to the report, the Security Council in a statement issued on August 16 reiterated its commitment to the importance of the war on terror in Afghanistan and said that it was important to ensure that Afghan territory was not used to threaten or invade any country. Not to be used.

The statement also said that "neither the Taliban nor any other Afghan group or individual should support terrorist acts from any country's territory."

The UNSC re-inserted a paragraph in its initial statement after the August 27 bombing at Kabul Airport, but removed the word Taliban.

Security Council members stressed the importance of the fight against terrorism in Afghanistan and said that it was important to ensure that Afghanistan's territory was not used to intimidate or attack any country, nor any Afghan. The group or individual must support terrorists active in any country.

The Security Council issued a second statement on August 30 regarding the Kabul bombing, which killed more than 180 people, including 13 Americans and 28 Taliban.

The written statement reiterated its call for assurances that the territory of Afghanistan would not be used for any intimidation or attack, where there would be no shelter or training or planning or financing of terrorists. ۔

However, the statement again did not include the Taliban among the groups bound by the assurance.

The council could have done so if it had wanted to, because the Taliban are still listed as a terrorist organization in Security Council Resolution 1267 of 1999.

The resolution bans the Taliban and freezes their funds and other financial resources because they sheltered Osama bin Laden, then wanted in the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.