United States: Don't pay back, transfer!

The Comprehensive Associated Press and AFP reported on the 15th that one year after the United States withdrew from Afghanistan, the Bayeng government announced on Wednesday that it would transfer half of the foreign exchange reserves of the Afghan Central Bank to a trust fund in Switzerland. Use this money without the government of the Taliban Taliban.

It is reported that the US $ 3.5 billion funds released by the United States will be stored in the International Clearance Bank of Switzerland. According to the United States, the so -called "Afghan Fund" headquartered in Geneva will replace the core functions of the central bank of Afghanistan, such as paying power imports, repaying international arrears, and may be responsible for printing currency.

Afghan Central Bank Picture Source: People's Vision

According to the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, an official of the Taliban government in Afghanistan said: "We do not agree to transfer funds to the accounts that are referred to, (we want) to transfer it to the Afghan Central Bank." It will oppose the establishment of a third -party regulatory system to ensure that the funds are used reasonably.

According to Xinhua News Agency, after the Taliban took over August 2021, the United States frozen Afghanistan's foreign exchange reserves. Biden signed an administrative order in February this year, requiring to divide the Afghan central bank of about $ 7 billion in US assets, half of the victims of the "September 11" terrorist attacks, and the other half was transferred to the New York Federal Reserve A bank's account "is used to help the people in Afghanistan", and it is also clearly stated that these assets will not be returned to the Taliban regime that controls Afghanistan.

Former Afghan Ministry of Finance official Fazel told reporters from the Central Radio and Television Station that after the U.S. military evacuated, US President Biden promised to help the Afghan people through diplomatic and humanitarian assistance. But the fact is that Midea cuts off Afghanistan and frozen the Assets of the Afghanistan. Many projects have stopped, and thousands of Afghanians have lost their sources of work and life. Afghanistan's human rights and economic crises are worsened, and the state reconstruction is difficult. Afghanistan's predicament today is caused by the United States. The United States should deeply reflect on the harm to the people of Afghanistan and fulfill its commitment to the rebuilding of Afghanistan.

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