The US decision to seize the 7 billion Central Bank Afghan is challenged by humanitarian actors in the country.
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The decision on Friday, February 11, from the US President, Joe Biden, to seize the assets of the Afghan Central Bank, filed in the United States and frozen since the return to power of the Taliban, in August 2021, has not aroused than the IRER of the Islamist regime. International NGOs and some UN executives express, since then, their deep concern about an initiative, according to them, “heavy legal issues”, puts the humanitarians “in serious danger” and mortgages the chances of taking the country a serious economic crisis. More broadly, it is the attitude of the international community vis-à-vis Afghanistan that is criticized.
m. Biden has planned to devote half of the seven billion dollars blocked into the US banks ‘crates to the compensation of victims’ families at the attacks of September 11, 2001, in the United States. It provides that the other half be reserved for humanitarian aid for Afghanistan without these funds from falling into the hands of Taliban leaders. The US President relies on the “Extraordinary Economic Powers” by a 1977 law and intends to transfer this money to a blocked account of the New York Federal Reserve.
“Complices of a flight”
At Kabul, the boss of doctors without borders (MSF) for Afghanistan does not disturb since that announcement that he describes as “legally low and ineffective”. Filipe Ribeiro believes that it “makes NGOs potentially guilty of theft” since these reserves belong to Afghanistan. “On the legal point and on its feasibility, nothing says the United States will be able to carry out this project”, because, according to him, it is likely to make the country sink into chaos. “The reserves of a central bank serve to support the currency, the economy and the banking system, depriving it, while Afghanistan is already suffering from a serious liquidity crisis, it is to fall.”
The Director General of Action Against Hunger, Jean-François Riffaud, Passage to Kabul, assures him that his organization “will never finance [his] operations on the basis of this manna because it is [ The] put in situations extremely dangerous vis-à-vis the Talibane and Afghan authorities themselves who will be able to consider, rightly, as the accomplices of a flight “. Feminist NGOs, however, hostile to the regime of Afghan Islamists, he adds, showed against the US initiative, considering that this would serve above all the interests of the Afghan people.
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