Sanctions negatively impacting humanitarian activities: Hanafi

KABUL (Pajhwok): Deputy prime minister for administrative affairs Maulavi Abdul Salam Hanafi has said international community’s sanctions on Afghanistan have negative impact on humanitarian activities in the country.

Hanafi met Deputy Executive Director of World Food Program (WFP) Carl Skau and his delegation in Kabul and asked the world remove sanctions on the country.

The deputy PM office in a press release said Abdul Salam Hanafi thanked WFP for providing humanitarian assistance for the poor people of Afghanistan and asked the UN agency to increase its humanitarian aid.

Hanafi said the acting government of Islamic Emirate (IE) had banned poppy cultivation and smuggling of narcotics, rehabilitated addicts and collected beggars in different parts of the country, but despite that humanitarian aid of the international community, especially the UN, was not enough in the mentioned sectors and must be increased.

He added lengthy administrative paperwork and corruption had ended in the offices of Afghanistan.

“The sanctions are not the solution and have negative impact on humanitarian works, so the international community must choose the way of discussion and interaction with the Islamic Emirate,” Hanafi said.

The international community must not ignore the implementation of development projects in the country badly hit by the past wars and recent droughts.

Carl Skau said that WFP has been active in Afghanistan since last 60 years in the fields of food security, nutrition, humanitarian assistance, development activities and the attraction of aid from the international community.

Skau said corruption was a huge problem in the past, but luckily it had been banished, narcotics also decreased significantly and security ensured all over the country.

Skau said: “The people of Afghanistan have really suffered due to wars and climate change, so WFP is trying to get more humanitarian aid to the poor people of Afghanistan”.

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