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Russia called on the United States today to release the cash reserves of the Central Bank of Afghanistan, which Washington froze after the Taliban took control of Kabul earlier this month.
“If our Western colleagues are really worried about the fate of the Afghan people, then we should not raise additional problems for them by freezing reserves of gold and foreign currencies,” said the Russian President’s envoy to Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, in an interview with Russia 24. Urgently release those assets to raise the value of the collapsed Afghan national currency.
He warned that without doing so, the new Afghan authorities would be diverted to smuggling illegal opium products and to the black market selling weapons abandoned by the Afghan army and the United States.
The Taliban seized Kabul on the fifteenth of August, after controlling large areas of the country in recent months, after the US administration announced its intention to withdraw its forces after twenty years of military invasion in this country, which led to chaos and instability.
