Taliban Officials Set to Attend UN Climate Conference Amidst Global Scrutiny

Baku, Azerbaijan - In a significant development, Afghan Taliban officials are set to participate in the United Nations COP29 climate summit, which begins next week in Baku, Azerbaijan. This marks the first time Taliban representatives have attended a major UN climate conference since the group seized power in 2021.

The Afghan Foreign Ministry announced that officials from the National Environmental Protection Agency, now under Taliban control, have already arrived in Azerbaijan. While Afghanistan’s government remains unrecognized by UN member states due to its severe restrictions on women’s rights, the Taliban officials were invited by Azerbaijan as observers, enabling limited participation in peripheral discussions and bilateral meetings.

Unrecognized Status Limits Participation

Since retaking power, the Taliban have been excluded from formal UN proceedings. The UN General Assembly has not granted the group Afghanistan’s seat, citing their controversial policies, including banning women and girls from education beyond the age of 12 and imposing strict morality laws.

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s Bureau of the COP has also deferred Afghanistan’s formal participation in climate negotiations since 2021, effectively sidelining the country from global climate talks. Despite this, Taliban officials have attended regional forums in China and Central Asia and participated in UN-led meetings on Afghanistan in Doha.

Afghanistan’s Climate Crisis

Afghanistan is among the nations most vulnerable to the effects of climate change. This year alone, flash floods have claimed hundreds of lives, while a severe drought has deepened food insecurity in the largely agriculture-dependent nation. Subsistence farmers, who form the backbone of Afghanistan’s economy, are struggling with dwindling resources and an escalating humanitarian crisis.

"Afghanistan is one of the countries that is really left behind on the needs that it has," said Habib Mayar, deputy general secretary of the g7+, an intergovernmental group of conflict-affected nations. He added, "There is lack of attention, lack of connection with the international community, and then there are increasing humanitarian needs."

Broader Implications

The Taliban’s attendance at COP29 underscores the delicate balance of addressing global climate challenges while navigating complex geopolitical and humanitarian issues. Their participation, limited as it may be, raises questions about the international community’s willingness to engage with unrecognized governments on issues that transcend political divides.

As Afghanistan grapples with the dual crises of climate change and humanitarian neglect, its participation—albeit as an observer—may offer a rare platform to advocate for the country’s environmental needs. Whether this signals a shift in international engagement with the Taliban remains to be seen.

Source: The Bureau Newspaper

They have no choice Taliban rules Afghanistan

With these kind of gestures they can be ‘proselytized’ into a civil bunch; come to think of it, you can’t rid Afghanistan of the Taliban without another occupation of Afghanistan.

Trump in the making

Trump actually have a good relationship with the Talibans

With Trump presidency, all those senseless wars should stop.

Trump will call Putin directly about Ukraine

John Bolton was fired before he was just mongering for war during Trump's first term

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Nothing surprise me anymore.

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A good step in the right direction, maybe it's a plan to win their soul for Christ. After the submit, they will take the gospel back to Afghanistan and convert more souls.

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Na Dia dem go catch dem all

Will they be attending with their Ak47 riffles and Anti aircraft guns

Time to arrest some of them loading

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Liberal world

Hope they won't arrest them

Or is UN trying to read reactions of world leaders since Israeli PM is considered to be wanted by ICC etc.?

Would like to relocate to afganistan

Why are they surprised, abi them no be Afghan government again?

It's the way to go.
You don't make friends with your enemies by isolating them.
Not like America that loves sitting on high horses and looking down on everything else, because she knows if she should come down to terms with your situation, you'll reach to measure height with her and touch her sorry stupid conceited scalp.
Well, it won't last for long. Forces are realigning and eventually she'll be left behind and with no one but herself, all alone.

They want to draw them closer so that they can dismantle them

The Taliban is a recognized government now. The US spent twenty years fighting them and gained nothing for the wasted time. Now, the same US will sit with their representatives side-by-side during international conferences. No permanent friend or foe in politics.

US in the mud again.

After their failed foreign policy in the Ukraine, no body regards and the neocons in Washington and Brussels anymore.

The US has been thoroughly demystified by Russia.

How will they now communicate in the UN Climate Change Conference when they don't have Western Education?

I support the invitation

Bombs pollute the atmosphere and human rights especially suppression of women lead to such harmful habits like cooking with firewood

DeepsightX will not come here to admonish his terrorist Taliban buddies

Na stakeholders dem be too na. Hehe. I hope them no go carry Kala enter the submit

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Source: The Bureau Newspaper

The Christian West sat and folded their hands when the barbaric muslim refugees invaded their countries like assylum seekers or fake immigrants. Now those assylum seekers have been permitted to represent the western countries in places like the UN, EU, etc, where major decisions are being taken. In fact its too late.

That is why the UN and its bodies like UNICEF, UNRWA, etc have been turned to a circus show of hateful islamic agitations and expressions.

That is the reason why an Abdul, with origin from pakistan, will represent FRANCE as a prosecutor of the ICC and then call for the arrest of Netanyahu or Macron himself

That is why an Aisha will represent CANADA in the UN as a rapporteur and call for the polgrom of Israel and the intifada of the West.

That is why an Ahmad will be in the parliament of the UK and call for laws of beheading for blaspheme of a filthy book.

That is why a somalian woman will flee from islamic somalia to Christian America, get the opportunity to be a parliamentarian, and then agitate for the enactment of the same islamic sick laws she escaped from.

That is a Rashida from palestine will flee from Hamas in Gaza and having the opportunity to be a parliamentarian in America, will call for the arrest of people who criminalize and go after the very Hamas that tormented her.

Islam is filth

Kukutente23:
I support the invitation

Bombs pollute the atmosphere and human rights especially suppression of women lead to such harmful habits like cooking with firewood

DeepsightX will not come here to admonish his terrorist Taliban buddies

Bismillah Rahman Raheem
La illah il Allah
Mohammadu rasul Allah

DeepSight:


Bismillah Rahman Raheem
La illah il Allah
Mohammadu rasul Allah

Haha!!

I knew it

You're sympathetic to Islamic terrorists