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Kabir tells UN official IEA will attend Doha meeting if its ‘position is accepted’
In a meeting with Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, the Deputy Prime Minister said the Islamic Emirate will participate in the third Doha meeting if its "position" is accepted.
He said that Afghanistan is under the complete control of the Islamic Emirate and that the country "has an Emir” and the government is “obeyed”.
According to a statement issued by Mawlavi Abdul Kabir’s office, the deputy prime minister told DiCarlo: "The previous meeting in Doha was incomplete due to some shortcomings of its organizers, and the position of the Islamic Emirate should be accepted in the next meeting so that the delegation of the Islamic Emirate will participate in it."
The Secretary General of the United Nations once expressed regret for the Islamic Emirate's non-participation in the Doha meeting, but at the same time said that accepting the demands of the Islamic Emirate is equivalent to its recognition.
Meanwhile, the Islamic Emirate is asking the United Nations and other countries to recognize them as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.
Kabir said that the Islamic Emirate has fulfilled all its obligations and "rules over the entire geography of Afghanistan... There is a central government in all of Afghanistan that has an emir and is obeyed."
The United Nations is expected to hold the third Doha meeting with the participation of special representatives of countries for Afghanistan, but it has not set a date for it yet.
The Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs of the United Nations meanwhile visited Kabul this week and invited the Islamic Emirate’s officials to participate in the Doha meeting.
According to the deputy prime minister’s office, DiCarlo informed Kabir about the Doha meeting and said that "the Islamic Emirate's conditions for participating in this meeting are not difficult."
She expressed hope that a delegation of the Islamic Emirate will participate.
She said that representatives of a number of international organizations and countries have been invited to the Doha meeting, including the World Bank.
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Russian leadership has decided to remove IEA from list of banned groups
Kabulov said that Russia’s Foreign Ministry jointly with the Russia’s Federal Security Service and a number of other Russian agencies are putting finishing legal touches on the removal of IEA from the list of banned groups.
Russia has already made a principal decision to remove the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) from its list of banned groups, with certain legal procedures pending, Russian Special Presidential Representative for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov has said.
Kabulov said that Russia's Foreign Ministry jointly with the Russia’s Federal Security Service and a number of other Russian agencies are putting finishing legal touches on the removal of IEA from the list of banned groups.
"A principal decision on this has already been made by the Russian leadership. But the process should be carried out within the Russian legal framework," the Russian envoy said following the latest round of consultations on Afghanistan in Moscow, TASS news agency reported.
Russian authorities just need to bring the process in line with federal laws, Kabulov explained. "Hopefully, the final decision will be announced soon," he added.
Earlier on Friday, Director of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov said that work to remove IEA from the list of banned groups was in the final stages in Russia.
According to the FSB chief, Russia can see that the IEA is "ready to fight" the Khorasan branch of Daesh, which he claimed to be "getting material support from the West which uses the terrorist group’s capacity to carry out subversive false-flag operations on our soil."
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Khamenei urges Afghanistan to tie ‘defense belt’ against Israel
He also said that “every strike launched by any group against Israel is a service to the region and to all humanity.”
Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Friday called on Afghanistan and other Islamic countries to tie defense belt against Israel.
"If any nation wants to avoid the paralyzing siege of the enemy, it must open its eyes from the beginning, be awake," Khamenei said in a Friday prayer speech in Tehran. “When it sees the enemy going to another nation, it should partner with that oppressed nation and help it, cooperate with it so that the enemy does not succeed there. If the enemy succeeds there, it will come to this next point.”
"We Muslims have neglected this fact for many years, and we have seen the consequences. Today we must no longer neglect. We must be aware. We must tie the belt of defense, the belt of independence, the belt of honor, from Afghanistan to Yemen, from Iran to Gaza and Lebanon, in all Islamic countries and Islamic nations.”
He also said that “every strike launched by any group against Israel is a service to the region and to all humanity.”
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Six injured in gas cylinder explosion in Panjshir
Six people were injured after a gas cylinder exploded in Afghanistan's central Panjshir province, security officials said.
Abidullah Farooqi, spokesman for the Panjshir police, said the incident occurred at a guesthouse in the Abdullah Khel Valley.
He added that security forces immediately took the wounded to the health center.
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