Taliban ask for support from China, Iran and Turkey

After days of diplomatic initiatives, the Taliban are opening the doors of the new Afghanistan to China, because while the West tries to tighten the financial embargo, Kabul’s new bosses have publicly appealed to Beijing, believing it can play a “big role in reconstruction”. “China is a big country with a huge economy and capacity and I think it can play a very important role in reconstruction,” said Suhail Shaheen, spokesperson for international media, speaking on the European channel. English-speaking Chinese state television CCTV.

In this context, Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who received Taliban leaders just 20 days ago, backed his British counterpart Dominic Raab that, wishing to “play a constructive role”, the international community must “fully respect the independence and sovereignty of Afghanistan and the will of its people”.

For Beijing, the only real downside remains the isolation of the Uyghur jihadists in Xinjiang.

Chinese investments could also be urgent.

The halt in international aid and the freezing of nearly 10 billion Afghan funds abroad seem to have hit the mark. “An injustice”, defined the spokesperson for the jihadist group, according to which “the people need these resources” and “the Central Bank will need them”.

President Ebrahim Raisi’s new Iran could soon jump on the train of the mullahs’ privileged partners, precisely in partnership with China.

“We believe that Tehran and Beijing, on the basis of a strategic plan, can cooperate in Afghanistan at different levels,” Foreign Minister-designate Hossein Amirabdollahian said in a meeting with China’s special representative for the ‘Afghanistan, Yu Xiao Yong.

The withdrawal of the United States, which Raisi himself had already defined as “an opportunity for peace”, opens up new scenarios. “The Afghan people – he stressed – have demonstrated in their history that they will never tolerate foreign occupation and domination.”

For its part, Turkey also continues to take a back seat.

If the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan assured that he was ready to meet “the government formed by the Taliban” to guarantee “above all the stability and security of the country”., for fear of an uncontrolled wave of immigrants, on the other hand, he disclosed that he had rescued some forty lieutenants of the fugitive president Ashraf Ghani, hiding them among the 324 who were aboard the first Turkish repatriation flight on Monday. from Kabul.

Among them, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Hanif Atmar and the head of the secret service, Ahmad Zia Sraj.

It is a movement which suggests the will not to lose contact with any of the parties concerned.

However, on the ground, Turkey maintains its embassy, ​​the only fully operational among NATO countries, and supports dialogue with mediators, starting with former President Hamid Karzai.

The last time the Taliban took power, in 1996, the organization was recognized by only three nations: Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. No government has yet gone this far, undermining the ability of militants to effectively lead the country.

With information from ANSA

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