'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...'
Daphne Psaledakis and Jonathan LandayWASHINGTON - The United States on Wednesday formally exempted U.S. and U.N. officials doing official business with the Taliban from U.S. sanctions in a decision aimed at easing the flow of aid to Afghanistan as it sinks deeper into a humanitarian crisis.
Some experts said the proposal raised questions about whether such payments would violate U.N. and U.S. sanctions on the Taliban and on many of their leaders, including Sirajuddin Haqqani, the Interior Ministry chief and head of the Haqqani network. The Treasury on Wednesday issued three general licenses aimed at easing humanitarian aid flows into Afghanistan.
A senior U.S. administration official said that despite the new licenses, the Taliban would have to make decisions about how they operate the government to prevent a complete economic collapse."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 licenses will allow us to allow organizations that are doing this work to do exactly that," the official told reporters.
The United States and other donors cut financial assistance, and more than $9 billion in Afghanistan's hard currency assets were frozen.
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