US lawmakers urge Biden to release frozen Afghan funds ‘to prevent humanitarian disaster’

Three US Parliamentarians have urged US President Joe Biden to release Afghan assets worth billions of dollars to prevent the ongoing humanitarian disaster. The South Asian country was on the verge of the collapse of the month after the United States with NATO allies with interesting troops and the Taliban took control.

Parliamentarians from the US House of Representatives made recommendations in a letter to the US President. In the letter, they suggested the release of focused humanitarian funds to help the people of Afghanistan. They also underlined that the US had a moral obligation for Afghanistan who partnered with them in the fight against terrorism.

“When American troops last left Afghanistan, the United States promised that we would not leave Afghanistan,” said the parliamentarians in the letter, as quoted by Ani’s news agency. “It was a mistake we made once before with great consequences for our own security, as well as for Afghans. We must enforce our promise and do what is needed to ensure that the progress made over the past 20 years does not disappear,” Members Parliament added.

They also emphasized that the US could not allow Afghanistan to be “once again a breeding place for terrorist organizations intending to kill Americans and attack our nation.”

In December last year, 40 parliamentarians had written to the Secretary of the State Antony Blinken and the Treasury Secretary of Janet Yellen to release humanitarian assistance to the Afghans when the United Nations warned about the great humanitarian crisis that applies in the country.

In August last year, the Taliban completed the arrest of power in Afghanistan by capturing the Presidential Palace in Kabul in a rapid military attack when foreign troops went. The chaotic exit caused a big crisis for Afghanistan, with many security experts who claimed to bring the country back to 1991 when the Taliban was overthrown by US forces.

After the Taliban takeover, the US freezes almost $ 10 billion assets belonging to the Afghan Central Bank.

Last week, Antonio Guterres warned about “open nightmares in Afghanistan” and said that the world was competing against time to help Afghans. “Babies are sold to feed their brothers. Freeze health facilities overflow with malnourished children. People burn their belongings to stay warm. Livelihoods throughout the country have disappeared,” said the head of the United Nations also said, While asking the global community to unite to help Afghanistan.

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