‘Return of assets can improve Afghan humanitarian issues’

KABUL (Pajhwok): The release of Afghanistan’s foreign reserves will help improve the current economic situation, but will not address humanitarian issues, believes a senior UN diplomat.

This comes that the acting Afghan government has often demanded the US to release Afghanistan’s assets to improve Afghanistan’s deteriorated economic situation.

Asked if the return of the frozen funds would help improve the humanitarian situation, the UN’s deputy special representative for Afghanistan replied: “It will improve, of course.

“To what extent and in what form is another question,” Ramiz Alakbarov told Sputnik, Russia’s state-owned news agency, on Monday.

He explained reserves were not always meant for use to resolve humanitarian problems. Such assets were a factor of stabilization for the banking activity, he said.

The UN diplomat added: “It is a financial management tool. This does not mean that a person who does not have food today will definitely have this money in their hands…”

PAN Monitor/mud