The council group asks the Italian government to take a “firm condemnation position”
Union Valdôtaine regional councilors intervene on what is happening in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of Western troops. The Asian country soon returned under the control of the Taliban, who also conquered the capital Kabul.
“On August 16, 2021, Afghanistan returned to being the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the same denomination of twenty years ago, before the arrival of the Americans,” reads a note from the council group of the Mouvement. «The agreement signed in February 2020 in Doha between the United States and its allies with the Taliban provided for the withdrawal of US forces and their allies, subject to the commitment to sever ties with Al Qaeda. In light of the facts “, asks the UV group,” how reliable is an already feeble agreement – to what extent can one actually negotiate on a promise to fight terrorism? – which should have been followed by the opening of a peace table between the Taliban and the Afghan government? ».
“In the space of a few weeks, what has been achieved in twenty years from a humanitarian, civil rights and also an economic point of view was canceled – underline the unionist advisers -. What credibility can we now attribute to the United States, the United Nations and the European Union? ”.
Wave of refugees fleeing from horror
After what happened in recent days in Afghanistan, “the possibility of a massive migratory wave of thousands of men, women and children fleeing horror, violence, abuse, killings and the ghost of a civil war is extremely concrete. in turn, the possibility of new terrorist attacks against the West is concrete ”, the note continues.
Unionist advisers express “solidarity with the children, women and men of the Afghan people, victims of yet another humanitarian disaster that could and should have been avoided”.
Finally, the council group sends «to the Italian Government and to all the political forces that support it the appeal to immediately assume a firm position of condemnation followed by concrete facts. May we act as soon as possible to avoid a future of useless, empty regrets ».
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