On Wednesday UAE government welcomed Afghanistan president Ashraf Ghani to the country, following the bullet carried by the state news agency WAM.
“The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation can confirm that the UAE has welcomed President Ashraf Ghani and his family into the country on humanitarian grounds,” the declaration said.
The Taliban rush into Kabul having taken key cities in the former days including the active northern trading hub of Mazar-e-Sharif and the eastern city of Jalalabad, on August 15.
But the group promised that there would be no municipal war to snatch the capital of 4.5 million people, the situation would be “catastrophic.”
There is now mounting international analysis about the governance in Afghanistan, a country of almost 40 million people that has endured decades of dispute.
The UAE’s Dr. Anwar Gargash, the consular adviser to President Sheikh Khalifa, said the new ruler of Afghanistan would need to keep the country open to comfort diplomatic efforts.
“Afghanistan needs good relations with the international community to ensure a prosperous future, as the spokesman stated,” Dr. Gargash tweeted, initial remarks made by a Taliban spokesman at a press conference in Kabul.
“We hope that it will now turn the page of suffering in favor of peace and prosperity for all its people,” Dr. Gargash added. Ashraf Ghani said on a video message on Wednesday, his first appearance since leaving Kabul, he said that he hopes to return home, and said he supported talks between the Taliban and top former officials. “For now, I am in the Emirates so that bloodshed and chaos is stopped,” he said, noting that he had “no intention” to remain in the uprooting.
