Afghan women ban makes Taliban recognition near ‘impossible’: UN | Education NewsAfghan women ban makes Taliban recognition near ‘impossible’: UN | Education News
Afghanistan’s UN envoy Roza Otunbayeva tells a security council meeting that the Taliban rulers seek UN recognition but reject the world body’s key values. It will be “nearly impossible” for the international community to recognize the Taliban government as long as restrictions on women and girls remain in place in Afghanistan, the United Nations envoy to the country and head of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) has said. Roza Otunbayeva told the UN Security Council on Wednesday that the Taliban had asked to be recognized by the UN and its member nations, “but at the same time, they…