CHINA HINTS OUT AT HELPING TALIBAN TO REBUILD AFGHANISTAN

  • 23/08/2021

Accusing US of present Afghanistan crisis, China on Monday hinted out that it would reach out to Taliban to help rebuild the war-torn country.
"We hope there will be an early end to the chaos and wars in the country, it can resume financial order at an early date. China will also play a positive role in helping the country in self capacity building, peace, reconstruction and improvement of peoples' livelihoods,' Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said.He said US is "main perpetrator" for the Afghan crisis and Washington cannot leave without doing anything for Afghanistan's reconstruction.

Asked for his reaction to comments by Afghanistan's exiled central bank chief stating that the Taliban may go to China and Pakistan to replace the US for financial assistance, Wang said, "I want to stress that the US is the main perpetrator and biggest external factor for the Afghan issue. It cannot leave the mess without doing anything.""We hope the US will match its words with deeds and shoulder its responsibility to honour its own commitments in humanitarian assistance and reconstruction," he said.Wang said, "China always adopts a friendly policy towards entire Afghan people" and provided substantial assistance to socio- economic development to Afghanistan.About Taliban's statement that it will soon announce a political framework for Afghanistan, Wang said, "we noted these report".

"China's position on the Afghan issue is consistent and clear cut. We hope Afghanistan can form an inclusive open broad-based government which adopts a foreign and domestic policy that is prudent and moderate so as to echo and meet the aspiration and shared will of the international community and its own people,' he said.Asked about security of Chinese nationals in Afghanistan amid efforts by many countries to evacuate their nationals, Wang said China is closely following the security of the Chinese institutions and personnel in Afghanistan."Now our Embassy there is operating normally. Most Chinese nationals in Afghanistan have returned to China beforehand with the arrangement made by our embassy,' he said.

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