{"id":27177,"date":"2025-02-12T07:14:15","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T07:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=27177"},"modified":"2025-02-12T07:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T07:14:15","slug":"unsc-urges-islamic-emirate-to-take-action-against-rising-terrorist-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2025\/02\/unsc-urges-islamic-emirate-to-take-action-against-rising-terrorist-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"UNSC urges Islamic Emirate to take action against rising terrorist threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The United Nations Security Council held a meeting on Monday, urging the Islamic Emirate&#8217;s de-facto government to take immediate and specific actions to combat rising terrorist threats emanating from Afghanistan.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"167\" data-end=\"632\">The meeting saw representatives from the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism, the United States, China, Russia, and Denmark express growing concerns about security threats, including the Islamic State (IS), emanating from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"167\" data-end=\"632\">The council members described the threats as a danger to both the region and the world.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion focused on the 20th biannual report of the Secretary-General on the threat posed by Da\u2019esh to international peace and security.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27178\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27178\" style=\"width: 1171px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27178\" src=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Under-Secretary-General-Vladimir-Voronkov.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1171\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Under-Secretary-General-Vladimir-Voronkov.jpg 1171w, https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Under-Secretary-General-Vladimir-Voronkov-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Under-Secretary-General-Vladimir-Voronkov-1024x463.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Under-Secretary-General-Vladimir-Voronkov-768x348.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1171px) 100vw, 1171px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UN Photo\/Loey Felipe &#8211; Vladimir Voronkov, Under-Secretary-General of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism, briefs Security Council members on threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Under-Secretary-General Vladimir Ivanovich Voronkov, Head of the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism, stated that ISIS-Khorasan remains a threat to Afghanistan, the region, and the world. &#8220;In addition to launching attacks within Afghanistan, IS-Khorasan has also carried out attacks in Europe,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTerrorism remains a significant and evolving threat to global peace and security, one that no State can confront in isolation,\u201d Voronkov added.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives from China, Russia, Denmark, and Pakistan also raised concerns over security threats originating from Afghanistan during the Security Council session.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Ambassador to the UN said that the international community has failed to adequately address the access of some groups to American weapons left behind in Afghanistan. &#8220;The hasty withdrawal of NATO from Afghanistan resulted in many weapons being left behind, which have fallen into the hands of ISIS. We cannot ignore the situation in Afghanistan,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Fu Cong, China\u2019s Ambassador to the UN, emphasized that the Islamic Emirate must take concrete actions against security situation in Afghanistan. &#8220;China is committed to supporting the efforts of Central Asian countries and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization to cooperate with the Islamic Emirate in eliminating terrorist groups in Afghanistan,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Some political analysts believe that the U.S. is using such meetings to discredit the region and reduce Russia, China, and Iran&#8217;s influence in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Khalil Ahmad Nadem, a political analyst, says that the United Nations lacks independence in its decisions regarding Afghanistan and the world. &#8220;The U.S. has spent billions of dollars here; they want to destabilize the region through this issue, and these meetings are futile,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Zalmay Afghanyar Popal, another political expert, remarked: &#8220;In the past, millions of dollars were spent daily to eliminate these threats, but nothing has been done in the last three years. If it\u2019s a global threat, the fight should be global.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Islamic Emirate has not yet responded to the concerns raised by the UN Security Council members. However, it previously stated that no country is threatened from Afghan territory.<\/p>\n<h6><em><strong>ENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Nations Security Council held a meeting on Monday, urging the Islamic Emirate&#8217;s de-facto government to take immediate and specific actions to combat rising terrorist threats emanating from Afghanistan. The meeting saw representatives from the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism, the United States, China, Russia, and Denmark express growing concerns about security threats, including the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":16907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[990,978,372,16,194,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-security","category-region","category-report","category-world","category-afghanistan","category-headline"],"views":53,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27177"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27181,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27177\/revisions\/27181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}