The UN’s stance comes on the heels of The U.S. State Department asking the Taliban to form an “inclusive” government
UNICEF appears to be taking the Taliban at face value after the extremist group declared that it will support education for women and girls, with the head of the UN organisation saying that he has “not a single issue with the Taliban” after they promised to get schools up and running in Afghanistan.
Reuters reports that the UN is ‘quite optimistic’ about the Taliban taking control:
“We have ongoing discussions, we are quite optimistic based on those discussions,” UNICEF’s chief of field operations in Afghanistan, Mustapha Ben Messaoud, told a U.N. briefing.
“We have not a single issue with the Taliban in those field offices,” Messaoud added.
A spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights also stated Tuesday that “We call on the Taliban to demonstrate through their actions, not just their words, that the fears for the safety of so many people from so many different walks of life are addressed.”
The terrorist group also held a press conference, where it said it is “committed to the rights of women within the framework of Sharia.”
So the UN appears to believe that the Taliban has changed.
It’s been 20 years since they were able to freely go around shooting women in the head for daring to have jobs. So we’re supposed to believe they’re reformed characters now… or something?
The UN’s stance comes on the heels of The U.S. State Department asking the Taliban to form an “inclusive”...