Desperate politicians no longer welcome: Jalali

KABUL (Pajhwok): Commenting on the forth Vienna conference in Austria, an IEA official says the individuals lacking domestic support and having no plan for Afghanistan’s prosperity are destined to fail.

Participants of the fourth round of the Vienna conference, which started Monday in Austria, called for the formation of a government based on the will of the people of Afghanistan and intra-Afghan talks.

The Vienna conference is attended by a number of opponents of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) and ex-government officials who left the country before and after the IEA takeover.

Referring to the Vienna conference, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) official Zakir Jalali wrote on X those who had no plan for the country and enjoyed no domestic support but hoped for global backing were doomed to fail.

Jalali wrote: “Such desperate figures don’t know they are no more welcome in the field of politics and no one is ready to count on them or accept such meaningless utterances.”

The Vienna conference comes ahead of the third Doha meeting, to be attended by representatives from IEA, UN and a number of countries.

The caretaker government of Afghanistan has not yet commented on the Vienna conference.

However, IEA spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid had said last year the people of Afghanistan knew the participants of that meeting had already been tested.

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