EU considers new Afghan government as neither inclusive nor representative

The EU has criticized the interim government formed by the Taliban in Afghanistan as neither ‘inclusive’ nor ‘representative’ of the country’s ethnic and religious diversity, Report informs referring to Euronews.

“It does not look like the inclusive and representative formation of Afghanistan’s rich ethnic and religious diversity that we had hoped to see and that the Taliban promised in recent weeks,” an EU spokesman said in a statement.

Key positions in Afghanistan’s new caretaker government were announced by the Taliban on September 7 evening. The cabinet is all-male and stacked with prominent Taliban fighters who already helmed key posts during the militant group’s hardline regime between 1996 and 2001.