Afghan government today released details of the meeting with the members of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) who arrived in Kabul last week to meet the Afghan officials and review the situation of the country.
A press release from ARG (Presidential Palace) stated that president Ashraf Ghani briefed the members of the Security Council regarding the regional situation, menace of terrorism, fight against counter-narcotics, elections, new US strategy and other key issues.
The statement added that president Ghani presented some examples and evidences regarding the sanctuaries, training facilities, and financial resources of the terror groups based outside Afghanistan.
President Ghani said the Afghan government has managed to establish relations with the regional countries but the efforts to improve relations with Pakistan have not yielded positive results so far.
The statement further stated that Ghani discussed the future elections and said no one including himself has the right to interfere in the affairs of the election commissions as he admitted that the funds previously provided by the international community were not properly utilized.
President Ghani also called the new US strategy important to bring changes in Afghanistan and the region and said the Afghan forces are effectively taking important steps to fight narcotics trade including the destruction of heroin factories.
According to President Ghani, the Afghan government is committed to hold peace talks both with Pakistan and intra-Afghan talks among the Afghans to end the violence.
UNSC hailed the Afghan government and recognized the sacrifices of the Afghan security forces in the fight against terrorism.
They also agreed to maintain pressures on Pakistan in a bid to expedite the fight against terrorism and insisted on joint efforts for reconciliation process and peace talks, according to ARG.
The members of the Security Council also promised to share the information gathered during visit in the future UN meetings in a bid to hold talks and discuss the important issues of Afghanistan.
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