The United Nations said Thursday that its upcoming meeting in Doha, Qatar, will not focus on the Taliban recognition but on building a “unified consensus” with the international community regarding Afghanistan.
This came after U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said the U.N. intended to convene a meeting with envoys from across the region to discuss the potential international recognition of the Taliban ruling.
“What I can say is that the Doha conference on 1 and 2 May is not focusing on recognition, and we don’t want there to be any confusion about that,” Farhan Haq, a deputy spokesman for U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, told reporters….