According to the Taliban's wishes: Maas becomes clear and sends four demands to Afghanistan

After the Taliban's demands on Germany, Heiko Maas, for his part, sent demands to Afghanistan and threatened indirectly.

Ramstein - It is also not clear where the radical Islamic Taliban want to steer Afghanistan * after they have come to power.

Now they presented a transitional government.

Germany's Foreign Minister Heiko Maas does not classify the persons contained therein as “the signal for more international cooperation and stability in the country”.

After a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and 20 other foreign ministers at the US base in Ramstein, Maas also made four demands on the Taliban.

Afghanistan's future: Maas sends demands to the Taliban

“We expect that people who are authorized to leave the country are also allowed to leave the country,” quoted the Tagesschau Maas.

In addition, the Taliban must prevent terrorist structures from emerging again in Afghanistan.

In addition, human and women's rights must be protected and the government must represent all population groups.

With regard to the last two points in particular, there has been no positive news from Afghanistan recently.

It became known that the Taliban wanted to ban sport for women and girls.

The 33 named members of the Taliban government also did not contain a single woman or anyone from any other political grouping.

Western states had called for a so-called inclusive government to which not only the Taliban belong.

The entire European Union has made this a condition for further commitment, for example for the payment of development aid.

Maas said clearly that the government was “unsatisfactory” and indirectly threatened: “International isolation cannot be in your interests”.

Maas: Taliban government "unsatisfactory"

The Taliban * themselves had recently turned to Germany directly and demanded official diplomatic relations, i.e. the recognition of their government and aid money.

Angela Merkel had announced that one would have to speak to the Taliban in order to be able to bring more refugees out of the country.

A recognition of the Taliban through a trip to Kabul is not planned, it said to the

.

Maas now hit the same line: "It won't be about them, I don't see them at the moment either," said the Foreign Minister with a view to possible recognition of the Taliban government.

But he also spoke out in favor of talks with the Taliban, citing the reason that the federal government wanted to continue to bring people in need of protection out of the country - including German citizens.

Maas warns Taliban of humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan

In addition, Maas now also warned of a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan: "In many parts of the country there is already food shortage due to the drought," the

quotes him

.

“At the same time, international aid payments, on which many people depend, have been stopped.

And if a new government is unable to keep state affairs going, there is a threat of economic collapse after the political one - with even more drastic humanitarian consequences.