Suhail Shaheen has criticized the United Nations for not having invited the Islamic Emirate to attend the 79th UN General Assembly.

In a post on X, Shaheen said: “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) has both support of the people of Afghanistan and writ all over the country but still no representative or delegation from IEA is invited to participate in the current UNGA meeting."

Shaheen is the Islamic Emirate’s designated representative to the UN but has not been allowed to claim Afghanistan's seat. 

In his post, Shaheen said: "Such posture doesn’t solve any issue but rather deepens the gap and is against the policy of engagement with IEA which the UN claims to be following."

Shaheen’s post comes as world leaders have started gathering in New York for the start of this week’s annual meeting. 

However, this year’s summit is expected to how to better tackle the swirl of conflicts and crises across a fragmented world as well as plan on how to tackle the future. 

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres issued the challenge a year ago after sounding a global alarm about the survival of humanity and the planet: Come to a “Summit of the Future” and make a new commitment to multilateralism – the foundation of the United Nations and many other global bodies – and start fixing the aging global architecture to meet the rapidly changing world.

The U.N. chief told reporters last week that the summit “was born out of a cold, hard fact: international challenges are moving faster than our ability to solve them.” 

The Afghan Embassy in Turkmenistan says its Chargé d'Affaires Fazl Mohammad Saber met with the UN Political Affairs Officer for Central Asia, Andriy Larin, for talks on Afghanistan. 

Larin stated in the meeting that the main goals of the United Nations Regional Center, which is headquartered in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, is to help and support the countries in the region, including Afghanistan. 

The embassy said Larin praised the Islamic Emirate for its all-round development, the implementation of major and infrastructure projects, Afghanistan's cooperation with neighboring countries and the region, the prevention of drug cultivation and administrative corruption, and the creation of jobs for the people.

Saber also provided information about the IEA’s achievements over the past three years, and reiterated the Islamic Emirate’s focus on an economy-oriented policy. 

UNAMA’s Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan Indrika Ratwatte has emphasized the need to implement economic and employment projects to get a lasting solution to resolve the economic challenges in Afghanistan.

While visiting the projects in Khost and Paktia provinces for which $40 million have been allocated, Ratwatte said that people in wide and remote areas should be helped in Afghanistan.

“Continuous monitoring of aid delivery allows us to interact with people, identify their needs and be able to address them by authorities and adapt projects,” said Ratwatte.

"We think that for a society like Afghanistan, not only humanitarian aid is needed, but a sustainable solution is needed to build the community and meet their needs,” he added.

Meanwhile, the Deputy Minister of Economy Abdul Latif Nazari stated that the ministry is looking for the development of employment and infrastructure projects in the country to curb the economic challenges in the country.

“The Ministry of Economy welcomes UNAMA's report on sustainable support for the people of Afghanistan. Our effort is to develop employment and infrastructure projects,” said Nazari.

Some experts, however, believe that more investments should be made in large infrastructural projects in the country to create sustainable jobs for people and solve people's economic problems.

Earlier, the UN officials said that due to the high level of need of the people in Afghanistan, the aid collected to this organization was small and there is a need for countries to increase their aid to Afghanistan.