Addressing the UN Safety Council quarterly briefing on Afghanistan, Ambassador Parvathaneni emphasised India's priorities to offer humanitarian help and implement capacity-building initiatives for the Afghan folks.
“We consider within the utmost significance of worldwide and regional consensus and cooperation on key points regarding Afghanistan and actively interact with all related events to advertise peace, stability and improvement within the nation,” Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni stated.
“India's quick priorities in Afghanistan embrace provision of humanitarian help and implementation of capacity-building initiatives for the Afghan folks,” he added.
He additionally reaffirmed India's dedication to the UN Help Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
Ambassador Parvathaneni expressed gratitude to Particular Consultant of the Secretary-Basic (SRSG) and Head of the United Nations Help Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Roza Otunbayeva, for her briefing. “We worth her shut cooperation and hope to hold ahead the identical with UNAMA sooner or later,” he stated. Moreover, Ambassador Parvathaneni highlighted India's help efforts when an earthquake of 6.0 magnitude struck Afghanistan.
“India was among the many first nations to offer humanitarian help. We instantly delivered 1,000 household tents and 15 tons of meals provides to the affected provinces of Afghanistan. A further 21 tons of aid supplies, together with important medicines, hygiene kits, blankets and mills, had been dispatched,” he famous.
The earthquake that struck southeastern Afghanistan on September 1, resulted in additional than 2000 deaths and over 3,640 folks had been injured, as reported by Al Jazeera.
Furthermore, the Indian envoy highlighted India's steady efforts for the event of Afghanistan over time.
“In partnership with the UN Workplace on Medication and Crime, we've got supplied 84 MTs of help and medicines and 32 MTs of social help gadgets for drug rehabilitation programmes, notably these targeted on ladies. India's scholarships and fellowships to Afghan college students. Since 2023, we've got supplied scholarships for undergraduate and postgraduate programs to 2,000 Afghan college students, together with practically 600 women and girls,” Parvathaneni stated.
Ambassador Harish emphasised the necessity for the worldwide neighborhood to work collectively to stop terrorist actions in Afghanistan.
“The worldwide neighborhood should coordinate efforts in direction of making certain that entities and people designated by the UN Safety Council, the ISIL and Al Qaeda and their associates, together with Lashkar-e-Tayyiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed, together with those that facilitate their operations, not exploit the Afghan territory for terrorist actions, “he stated.
The Indian envoy additionally welcomed the robust condemnation by the Afghan facet of the Pahalgam terrorist assault on April 22, and emphasised the necessity for a nuanced strategy to handle post-conflict conditions.
“We welcome the robust condemnation of the Pahalgam terrorist assault of April 22, 2025, by the Afghan facet,” he stated.
Moreover, Parvathaneni suggested that Afghanistan want a “contemporary strategy” to help its folks, not the “enterprise as ordinary” strategy.
“Afghanistan wants a contemporary strategy with hitherto unused coverage devices to help its people who find themselves in such a dire want. ‘Enterprise as ordinary' strategy is just anticipated to keep up the established order, which isn't good for Afghanistan and unlikely to fulfill worldwide neighborhood expectations for Afghanistan's folks,” he stated.
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