The United States refuses to thaw Afghan foreign exchange reserves, the United Nations: I hope the $ 7 billion will be returned

According to Russian satellite news agency reported on the 15th, Ramiz Alakbarov, a UN Humanitarian coordinator in Afghanistan, said on Monday that the United Nations hopes to see Afghanistan's US $ 7 billion foreign exchange reserves returned.

Russian satellite news agency report screenshot

Alac Barolov said: "We need to return these assets to Afghanistan. I know that they are returning to the affairs to negotiate. I also know that it has made suggestions on the specific matters, such as how to return the private sector assets. Therefore, both parties both parties are both parties. Need to play flexibility. "

However, Arab Barov pointed out that the United Nations did not participate in related negotiations to Afghanistan's return to assets and did not understand the specific details of the negotiations.

Afghan central bank map source: people's vision

On the same day, the Wall Street Journal quoted US officials as saying that after the United States called the "base organization" leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri, after being killed by the U.S. drone in Kabul, the Bayeng government has decided not to not be able Thawing Afghanistan's central banks in the United States are about $ 7 billion in foreign exchange reserves in the United States, and have suspended negotiations with Taliban. The report pointed out that the decision reversed the early signs of progress in negotiations between the United States and the Taliban, and it would have a blow to the hope of Afghanistan's economic recovery.

After Taliban took over August 2021, the United States frozen Afghanistan's foreign exchange reserves. In February of this year, US President Biden also signed an administrative order that allows about $ 7 billion in foreign exchange assets to store the Afghan Central Bank to the US for humanitarian trust funds and compensation for the family members of the "September 11" victims.

Afghan central bank map source: people's vision

On August 10, 71 international economists and experts including the Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz jointly wrote to the US President Biden and Treasury Minister Yellen, who called on the United States and others. The state releases the assets of the Central Bank of Afghanistan. The letter said that Afghanistan needs about $ 9 billion in foreign exchange reserves of the central bank of Afghanistan to ensure that the economy can operate normally.

(Edit: ZLQ)

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