The United States claims that half of Afghanistan foreign exchange reserves will be transferred.

According to a Russian satellite news agency reported on the 15th, the Russian embassy in the United States said on Thursday that the United States decided to transfer US $ 3.5 billion in Afghanistan foreign exchange reserves to the so -called "Afghan Fund", violating international law and violating foreign sovereignty.

The Russian embassy in the United States wrote on the social platform Telegram: "We think this behavior violates international law and violates foreign sovereignty. The people in Afghanistan have the right to independently handle their assets without any external control. Russia. The Embassy strongly believes that no matter what kind of humanitarian slogan it adopts the American behavior, it will only exacerbate the suffering of the Afghan people. "

The Russian Embassy in the United States called on the United States to reserve the frozen Afghanistan foreign exchange reserves "to return its owner and stop adopting colonialism for sovereign countries."

Afghan Central Bank Picture Source: People's Vision

According to Xinhua News Agency, after the Taliban took over August 2021, the United States frozen Afghanistan's foreign exchange reserves. Biden signed an administrative order in February this year, requiring to divide the Afghan central bank of about $ 7 billion in US assets, half of the victims of the "September 11" terrorist attacks, and the other half transferred to the New York Federal Reserve Bank A account, "for helping the people in Afghanistan", and clearly stated that these assets will not be returned to the Taliban regime that is currently controlled by Afghanistan.

According to the Associated Press and Agence France -Presse, the Bayeng government announced on Wednesday that it would transfer half of the foreign exchange reserves of the Afghan Central Bank of Afghanistan to a trust fund in Switzerland, because it was necessary to ensure that it was used without the government of the Taliban government of Afghanistan. Pen money.

It is reported that the US $ 3.5 billion funds released by the United States will be stored in the International Clearance Bank of Switzerland. According to the United States, the "Afghan Fund" headquartered in Geneva will replace the core functions of the central bank of Afghanistan, such as paying power imports, repaying international arrears, and may be responsible for printing currency.

A Turkish Radio and Television Corporation said an official of the Taliban government of Afghanistan said: "We do not agree to transfer funds to the accounts we are referred to, (we hope) to transfer it to the Afghan central bank." He added that the Atta government would not oppose it. Establish a third -party regulatory system to ensure that the funds are used reasonably.

(Edit: ZLQ)

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