China’s State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said addressing the G20 meeting on Wednesday that there is a need for lifting any unilateral restrictions on Afghanistan.
“Economic sanctions must end. Various unilateral sanctions or restrictions on Afghanistan should be lifted as soon as possible,” Wang Yi said.
Sanctions should not be used as bargaining chips, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday, citing Wang Yi’s speech at the foreign ministers’ meeting.
“Afghanistan’s foreign exchange reserves are national assets that should belong to the country’s people and be used by its own people, and not be used as a bargaining chip to exert political pressure on Afghanistan,” he said.
He called stepping up efforts to provide humanitarian aid to Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, Pakistan’s foreign minister Shah Mahmoud Qureshi on Wednesday met with the United Nations refugee chief Fillipo Grandi, discussing the urgency of stepping up humanitarian assistance in Afghanistan to prevent a greater crisis, U.N. refugee chief said.
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