Potzel’s comment on embassies reopening disappointing: Faiq

KABUL (Pajhwok): Afghanistan’s Chargé d’Affaires to the United Nations Naseer Ahmad Faiq has termed UNAMA Deputy Head Markus Potzel’s remarks regarding the reopening of western countries embassies in Afghanistan as disappointing.

Potzel has asked western countries to reopen their embassies in Afghanistan.“My appeal would be for more Western states to be represented here again,” Markus Potzel, who served as Berlin’s ambassador to Afghanistan from 2014 to 2016, told the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND) media outlet on Sunday.
It was easier to assess the situation in Afghanistan when being present in the country, Potzel said, adding that it shouldn’t be forgotten that Germany and other Western nations also had interests in Afghanistan.
Western countries closed their embassies in Kabul after the fall of the previous government.
The caretaker government has banned women from attending university and teenage girls from high schools and on Saturday asked local and foreign NGOs to suspend female staff.

But Naseer Ahmad Faeq, Chargé d’Affaires of AFG Permanent Mission to the UN, on his twitter handle wrote: “Afghan people & Afghan women in particular are utterly disappointed by @PotzelMarkus‘s remarks. We are certain it is not @UNAMAnews or @antonioguterres‘ official stance.”

This comes that acting Afghan government often stressed over the reopening of foreign diplomatic missions in Afghanistan.

After regime change in Afghanistan last year, western countries have shut down their diplomatic missions in Afghanistan and evacuated its staff members.

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