UNSC Meeting on Afghanistan: Today at 7:30 pm, UNSC will meet under the chairmanship of India, the situation in Afghanistan will be discussed


Posted on 16th Aug 2021 06:52 pm by rohit kumar

UNSC Meeting on Afghanistan: In the wake of the Taliban occupation of Afghanistan, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will hold an emergency meeting on the situation in Afghanistan under the chairmanship of India on Monday. This will be the second meeting of the Security Council in a week. This meeting will start at 7.30 pm. The long-running war in Afghanistan marked a turning point on Sunday when Taliban extremists entered the capital Kabul and captured Rashtrapati Bhavan and President Ashraf Ghani had to leave the country along with domestic and foreign nationals. Taliban fighters have also captured the Afghan parliament. Taliban fighters with guns in their hands entered the parliament building and sat on the speaker's chair.

 

 

India's Permanent Representative to the United Nations TS Tirumurti tweeted, "UN Security Council to meet on Afghanistan issue. There will be briefing and discussions on Afghanistan on 16 August under the chairmanship of India.

 

 

India holds the presidency of the UN Security Council for August. In this, the situation in Afghanistan was discussed in the first week. There is a deadlock in the talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban in Doha. As the situation in Afghanistan worsens, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged the Taliban and other parties to exercise restraint from the Taliban and all other parties to save Afghan lives and provide humanitarian aid.

 

 

Meanwhile, today a US State Department official said that the American flag has been taken down from the US embassy in Kabul amid the evacuation of its people from Afghanistan. Nearly all of the embassy officials have been airlifted to the city's international airport, where thousands of Americans and others are waiting for the planes, the official said. The official said that the American flag is with one of the embassy officials.

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