In response to the UN Security Council Report on ISIS, IEA Spokesman’s Statement

Ambassadors at the United Nations Security Council were briefed by two senior officials of the fight against terrorism about the threats posed by Daesh from the world and Afghanistan in which, the claims of the presence of 20 groups in our country, the development of weapons and the increase in the operational capabilities of ISIS were repeated.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan once again rejects these baseless accusations and, while calling for transparent involvement in such issues, states that in the last two years, Afghan security forces have conducted hundreds of continuous operations against illegal weapons and ISIS. As a result, weapons and ammunition were captured and ISIS’s operational capabilities were destroyed. Anyone who makes such baseless claims is either uninformed or giving morale to ISIS and

destabilizing the region.

The fact that the activities of Daesh in Afghanistan have been reduced to zero in the last one year, and yet an international organization is spreading such undocumented and negative propaganda and cannot provide proof about it, puts the status of the organization under question.

At the same time, we agree that the UN and other parties’ unilateral sanctions on Afghanistan, freezing of assets are the main cause of the difficult humanitarian situation that has adversely affected the lives of ordinary Afghans, for the sake of regional stability, we request urgent change of this situation.

Zabihullah Mujahid, IEA Spokesperson