AP Interview: UN refugee chief says Afghan stability needed

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KABUL – The planetary assemblage and the Taliban volition request to find a mode to woody with each different for the involvement of stabilizing Afghanistan, the main of the U.N. exile bureau said Tuesday.

In an interrogation with The Associated Press, Filippo Grandi said the satellite faces a hard choice. He said it needs to equilibrium the information that an isolated Afghanistan would descend into unit and chaos against the governmental minefield supporting a Taliban-led authorities would present.

“The planetary assemblage volition person to equilibrium pragmatism, the request to support Afghanistan unchangeable and viable, and the governmental considerations that that would mean supporting a authorities led by the Taliban," said Grandi.

The Taliban toppled Afghanistan’s U.S.-backed authorities connected Aug. 15. They person faced planetary disapproval for forming an interim authorities made up wholly of Taliban members contempt promises to beryllium much inclusive. Governments astir the satellite person said they volition not admit Afghanistan’s caller rulers until a much inclusive authorities is enactment successful place.

Grandi said a compromise is urgently needed to debar an economical meltdown that could origin unit and chaos that would ignite a wide exodus. A illness of the already fragile Afghan system would engulf Afghanistan's neighbors and ripple crossed the world, helium said.

“It’s urgent. This is not 1 of those developmental issues that 1 tin sermon for 5 years earlier coming to a conclusion, but it volition necessitate compromises connected the portion of everybody,” helium said. “I deliberation that the planetary assemblage volition person to accommodate immoderate of its much stringent rules astir moving with governments ... and the Taliban volition person to marque compromises arsenic well."

Grandi said helium met with Taliban ministers and recovered that they listened. They person discussions among themselves, suggesting immoderate mightiness beryllium unfastened to an attack that is little harsh, little restrictive than their past rule, helium said. He added nevertheless that they volition beryllium judged by their actions.

The task of gathering Afghanistan's humanitarian needs has planetary support, helium said, arsenic indicated by the $1.2 cardinal raised by the U.N. connected Monday.

Grandi said humanitarian assistance indispensable beryllium delivered rapidly to support radical fed and sheltered, noting that wintertime is approaching quickly.

While the satellite is agreed to supply humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan, the logistics situation is tremendous successful a state that does not adjacent person a moving banking system. Each day, thousands of radical stitchery extracurricular banks successful the Afghan superior hoping for an accidental to retreat the $200 they are allowed each week.

The U.N. has warned that by the extremity of the twelvemonth 97% of Afghans volition beryllium surviving beneath the poorness level.

More than 3.5 cardinal radical person been displaced by the warring successful caller years and much than fractional a cardinal successful conscionable the past month. Many are surviving successful makeshift camps successful parks successful the Afghan capital. Dozens of families instrumentality structure nether tattered sheets strung crossed rope.

In Kabul's Shahr-e-Now Park, 63 families unrecorded successful squalid conditions, galore of the children are sick and the lone portable bath has agelong since exceeded capacity. Women lavation down a foul smelling curtain.

Conditions volition lone worsen arsenic wintertime approaches, said Grandi, who is scrambling to supply shelters.

“This political, subject crisis, this alteration successful authorities that has occurred has caught the full colonisation astatine the worst imaginable moment, emerging from years of insecurity,” said Grandi. “This is wherefore it’s truthful hard present to tackle it.”

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