The government of Japan announced on Monday that it had prepared a humanitarian aid project for Afghanistan worth $106.7 million “implemented by the U.N. agencies,” suggesting an attempt to keep the money out of Taliban hands.
The Taliban takeover resulted in international banking institutions freezing Afghan government assets, leaving the Taliban poorly funded. The Taliban has demanded those funds on the grounds that it is the true government of Afghanistan and that it would use the money for humanitarian purposes but has provided no grounds to believe that it would not use that funding for terrorist activities or repression of the Afghan people.
“At the moment, the Japanese Embassy in Kabul has begun its limited activity and is doing the minimum necessary work. For security reasons, I refrain from mentioning the details,” he noted at the time. “We truly hope these projects will help bring many smiles of [sic] Afghan people!” the embassy announced on Twitter.
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