Afghanistan .. The Taliban pledges to ensure the safety of humanitarian workers and Qatar begins an air bridge to transfer aid

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The United Nations announced that the Taliban pledged to ensure the safety of humanitarian workers, while the State of Qatar began to conduct an air bridge to transport aid to Afghanistan..

The United Nations said on Sunday that the existing authority in Afghanistan also pledged to ensure the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Afghan people.

She added that half of the population in Afghanistan needs humanitarian help to survive.

The international statements come shortly after talks by Martin Griffiths, Undersecretary of the United Nations Secretary -General for Humanitarian Affairs, with the head of the Taliban Political Bureau, Mullah Abdel -Ghani Bradar and other leaders of the movement, and dealt with humanitarian issues.

Red Cross

On the other hand, the head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, affirmed the committee’s commitment to stay in Afghanistan to help the Afghan people recover.

This came before his arrival in Afghanistan on Sunday for a three -day visit during which he will tour the medical facilities supported by the International Committee, and the physical rehabilitation centers that address the victims of violence and patients, in addition to holding various meetings.

Maurer said that the future of all Afghans depends on the continued sympathy of the outside world, its solidarity with them and its investment in their support, as he put it..

Qatari Joy Bridge

Meanwhile, on Sunday, a Qatari International Airport arrived at Kabul International Airport, carrying urgent relief assistance to the Afghan people provided by the Qatar Charity Association and the Qatar Red Crescent, with the aim of providing the necessary urgent needs..

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The Qatari ambassador in Kabul Saeed bin Mubarak said that the arrival of this plane comes within an air bridge that will continue in the coming days.

Other Qatari aircraft had arrived during the past few days in the Afghan capital, carrying technical equipment and equipment to repair Kabul Airport.

In the context, White House chief employee Ron Clean said that the United States hopes that in the coming days Qatar will restart international flights from the Afghan capital airport..

In an interview with CNN, Klin pointed out that the number of Americans who are still in Afghanistan is estimated at 100 people, and stressed that the administration of President Joe Biden will continue to work to get those wishing to leave the country.

For his part, Republican Foreign Mike Walz called on the US State Department to work with non -governmental organizations that he said is trying to obtain approval to conduct flight flights to evacuate Americans and allies at risk that they are still hiding in many Afghan cities near airports awaiting declaring them to leave the country.

Earlier, the internal navigation movement returned to the Afghan airports, and received the Kandahar airports and cable on Sunday a plane coming from Herat (West), and other domestic flights had been conducting, including a trip to the Mazar of Sharif (North).

Talk to the Taliban

In Berlin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Sunday that her country wants to speak with the Taliban ruling in Afghanistan on how to evacuate local contractors who worked with Germany and are still there.

For his part, the European Union's foreign policy official, Josep Borrell, said that the union is ready to deal with the upcoming Taliban government, but added that the movement must respect human rights, including women's rights, and not let Afghanistan turn into a base of terrorism.

In addition to the United States, European countries -including Britain and Germany -announced that they are in contact with the Taliban in order to ensure the safety of a number of its citizens or the Afghans who cooperated with them in the past years, and set Western capitals conditions -including ensuring the safe exit of these from Afghanistan,And respect for human rights- in order to deal with a government that the Taliban may constitute soon.

Western countries, led by Washington, set up a huge air bridge on August 14 after the Taliban took control of Kabul, but the evacuations ended on the 30th of the same month, without being able to transfer all Afghans wishing to leave the country.

The number of those evacuated last month from Kabul reached 124 thousand, and the number includes American citizens, citizens of ally countries of Washington and Afghan citizens cooperated with foreign forces and institutions in Afghanistan.