WASHINGTON, Dec 23 ― The United States formally exempted yesterday US and UN officials doing permitted business with the Taliban from US sanctions to try to maintain the flow of aid to Afghanistan as it sinks deeper into a humanitarian crisis.
The Treasury Department declined to say whether the new license would exempt the proposed UN payments from US sanctions on the Taliban. Two of the licences allow US officials and those of certain international organisations, such as the United Nations, to engage in transactions involving the Taliban or Haqqani Network for official business.
“What we can attempt to do, what we're going to work to do, is to mitigate the humanitarian crisis by getting resources to the Afghan people, and these general licences will allow us to allow organisations that are doing this work to do exactly that,” the official told reporters. Afghanistan's economic crisis accelerated after the Taliban seized power in August, as the former Western-backed government collapsed and the last US troops withdrew.
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