Turkish and Qatari officers will meet in Doha on Monday evening and later journey collectively to Kabul to debate a proper deal to function the Afghan capital’s airport with the ruling Taliban, Overseas Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu stated.
Turkey has stated it will be open to working Kabul’s Hamid Karzai worldwide airport together with Qatar, following the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban in August, however provided that its safety calls for are met.
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The airport is landlocked Afghanistan’s predominant air hyperlink to the world at a time when hundreds of thousands within the remoted nation face starvation with a harsh winter setting in. On Sunday, Islamic international locations pledged to arrange a belief fund for Afghanistan.
Ankara has been holding talks on Kabul airport with Doha and stated it was working along with Qatar on maintaining it operational.
Reuters has reported that the United Arab Emirates additionally held talks with the Taliban to run the airport.
Cavusoglu stated a Turkish firm and a Qatari agency had signed a memorandum of understanding on working a complete of 5 airports in Afghanistan, together with Hamid Karzai, however didn’t title the opposite 4.
“On this framework, we are going to current the interim authorities of Afghanistan with joint gives. Our colleagues are heading to Doha tonight and they’re going to journey collectively to Kabul from there to debate the difficulty with the interim authorities there,” he advised a information convention in Ankara on Monday.
“If our situations are met, we will function the airports with Qatar. If the situations should not met, there isn’t a obligation for us to function them,” he stated.
The Qataris have helped run the airport together with Turkey after taking part in a serious position in evacuation efforts following the chaotic US withdrawal in August. However the Taliban had not but formalized any association, sources acquainted with the matter advised Reuters in November Turkish and Qatari officers will meet in Doha on Monday evening and later journey collectively to Kabul to debate a proper deal to function the Afghan capital’s airport with the ruling Taliban, Overseas Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu stated.
The Taliban, which says it doesn’t need any international forces on Afghan soil, stays largely a global pariah and its authorities has not been formally acknowledged by any nation.
Cavusoglu additionally stated a potential joint go to to Kabul with international ministers from different Islamic international locations remained beneath dialogue.
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