United Nations Security Council Will Hold a Meeting on Afghanistan

In a statement released by the council on Monday (December 2), it has announced the holding of this meeting, but has not provided details regarding its exact date.

According to the statement, in this meeting, Roza Otunbayeva, the Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), Andrés Montalvo Sosa, Ecuador's Ambassador and Chairman of the Afghanistan Sanctions Committee, and an official from the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) will speak.

The Security Council also mentioned that a representative from Afghanistan's civil society will attend this meeting, and after the official meeting, closed-door discussions will also take place.

Although the agenda for this meeting has not yet been clarified, it is happening at a time when various UN agencies in Afghanistan have warned about the escalation of the humanitarian crisis and human rights violations by the Taliban.