Diplomats said on Tuesday that two Afghan education ministers are no longer allowed to travel abroad for any peace and stability talks after the UN Security Council removed them from the sanctions exemption list.
The move – agreed unanimously by the Security Council’s Taliban Sanctions Committee – comes after the Taliban pledged to open high schools for girls in March, saying they would remain closed until they were reopened according to Islamic law. No plans to open. ,
Dozens of Taliban members are subject to long-targeted UN sanctions – a travel ban, asset freeze and arms embargo. But the travel ban was relaxed to allow some leaders to participate in peace and stability talks.
The Security Council’s Taliban Sanctions Committee agreed on Monday to extend travel ban exemptions to 13 Taliban leaders, but removed the deputy minister education The diplomats said that Ahmed ShahidKhel and Higher Education Minister Abdul Baqi Bashir Awal Shah have been left out of the exemption list.
A spokesman for the Taliban administration’s foreign affairs ministry did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The UN Security Council met with Taliban officials last month Afghanistan To “rapidly reverse” policies and practices that restrict the human rights and freedoms of Afghan women and girls.
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