The Prime Minister addressed the nation for the first time, in an audio message broadcast on public television.
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The Afghan Taliban want “good relations” with all other countries, including at the economic level, and will never interfere in their affairs, their Prime Minister assured Saturday, November 27 in his first speech to the nation.
Mohammad Hassan Akhund spoke in an audio message of almost half an hour broadcast on public television RTA. He has still not appeared in public since he was appointed prime minister on September 7, as has the movement’s supreme leader, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada, invisible since the Islamists took over the country in mid-August.
After the Taliban returned to power last August, Washington froze the assets of the Afghan central bank, and the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund suspended aid to Kabul.
The Afghan economy, already one of the poorest in the world, undermined by 40 years of war, more recent droughts, and so far carried at arm’s length by international aid, is in free fall, and the country in edge of humanitarian disaster according to the UN.