KABUL ( SW) – The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has rejected the Reuters report on a proposed multi-million dollar plan for security for the UN in the country.<\/p>\n
Reuters had reported that the United Nations is proposing to pay nearly $6 million for protection in Afghanistan to Taliban-run Interior Ministry personnel, whose chief is under U.N. and U.S. sanctions and wanted by the FBI, according to a U.N. document and a source familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n
The proposed funds would be paid next year mostly to subsidize the monthly wages of Taliban fighters guarding U.N. facilities and to provide them a monthly food allowance under an expansion of an accord with the former U.S.-backed Afghan government, the document reviewed by Reuters shows.<\/p>\n
The plan underscores the persisting insecurity in Afghanistan following the Islamist Taliban\u2019s takeover in August as the last U.S. troops left, as well as a dire shortage of funds hampering the new government because of a cutoff of international financial aid.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe United Nations has a duty as an employer to reinforce and, where necessary, supplement the capacity of host states in circumstances where U.N. personnel work in areas of insecurity,\u201d deputy U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq wrote in an email in response to Reuters\u2019 questions about the proposed payments. He did not dispute the contents of the document.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Interior of the IEA said no such proposals have been formally shared.<\/p>\n
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