Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks at the Lanting Forum held at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing hosted by the China Public Diplomacy Association and Peking University and Renmin University in February. Beijing = Associated Press
China has urged the international community to lift its own sanctions against the Taliban, an Islamic fundamentalist militant group that has taken over Afghanistan.
According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People’s Republic of China on the 12th (local time), Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said, “The fundamental way out of the Afghan issue is that Afghanistan continues to promote peaceful reconstruction and achieve sound It is to help achieve economic and social development,” he said. He attended the meeting as a special representative of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
“Countries that still impose their own sanctions on Afghanistan should lift the sanctions as soon as possible,” Wang said. . “We need to encourage the relevant sector in Afghanistan to make an early decision and take practical measures to eradicate the malignant tumor of terrorism,” he added. This means that the Taliban must ‘completely break’ with the terrorist group.
“The international community must build a unified front against terrorism, abandon double standards and selective anti-terrorism, and ensure that Afghanistan does not become a hotbed and refuge for terrorism again,” he said. ‘Selective anti-terrorism’ is read as a criticism of the United States’ removal of the Xinjiang Uyghur separatist group ‘East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM)’ from the list of terrorist groups last November. China is concerned that if Afghanistan, from which the United States left the US, falls into chaos again, ETIM could expand its power within Afghanistan and support the Uyghur independence movement.
Heo Kyung-ju reporter fairyhkj@hankookilbo.com
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