UN wants the Taliban to give written assurance that aid workers won't be harmed as officials call for immediate resumption of delivery of relief supplies for half the Afghan population that's in need of humanitarian assistance
This picture taken on September 6, 2021 shows a view of an Afghan refugee camp inside the US military base in Ramstein, Germany.
Griffiths, speaking via videoconference, met the war-wary nation's new Taliban leadership in Kabul on Sunday and Monday."We need to see security to allow humanitarian delivery," Griffiths said. Now the UN officials are seeking to confirm in writing oral promises of security from the Taliban, who took over Afghanistan late last month after a lightning offensive as US troops withdrew.
Last week the United Nations announced that humanitarian flights, including from Pakistan, had resumed to northern and southern Afghanistan.According to UN officials about half the country's population, or 18 million people, are in need of humanitarian assistance.
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