Faiq: UNSC to Hold Private Meeting on Afghanistan on Feb. 26

On February 26, the United Nations Security Council will hold a private meeting on Afghanistan, the chargé d’affaires of the Afghanistan Permanent Mission to the UN, Naseer Ahmad Faiq.

He said that the meeting will be held on resolution 2127 of the UNSC.

“The UN security council will hold a private meeting on Afghanistan on 26 of February. In this meeting the members of the Security Council and the Secretary-General will participate and the Secretary-General will provide a report to the Security Council regarding the appointment of a special representative and the Doha Conference based on Resolution 2127,” said Naseer Ahmad Faiq.

“The envoy that the UN wants to appoint in fact will be like a government leading foreign institutions in Afghanistan and will be evaluating the politics of Afghanistan and reporting to the UN Security Council and then the Security Council will discuss its threats and incentives, and the Islamic Emirate will think it is interfering in their issues,” said Ahmad Munib Rasa, a political analyst.

The UN Security Council in resolution 2127 asked the Secretary-General to appoint a special representative of the UN to Afghanistan.

“One or two candidates are from Turkey, from Indonesia, Norway and there is also supposed to be some from Jordan. The properties of the envoy as stated in the resolution should be someone who has political knowledge of Afghanistan from a historical perspective, knows the region, has no close relations with any political sides or engaged countries and at the same time should have the necessary ability in the field of human rights and gender issues — these are the characteristics that the envoy should meet,” said the permanent representative of Afghanistan to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, Nasir Ahmad Andisha.

Meanwhile, the head of the Islamic Emirate’s Qatar-based political office, Suhail Shaheen, in an interview with a Japanese media outlet said that the Islamic Emirate will not accept another UN special envoy for Afghanistan.

“The question is why there is a need for a special envoy, second, there is suspicion that the special envoy may try to impose some decisions on Afghanistan,” Suhail Shaheen said.

This comes as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has also in a statement said that the country will be among the priorities of the agenda of the upcoming Islamic Summit in Gambia and the Council of Foreign Ministers in Cameroon.