Published 18 August 2021 at 09.45
Domestic. Foreign Minister Ann Linde (S) states that she and the EU “demand” that the Taliban in Afghanistan respect “human rights”. Not least when it comes to women, reports Ekot.
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During a high-profile press conference on Tuesday, the Taliban answered questions, including what the position of women will look like in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, as the movement calls its state formation.
– We will to allow women to work and study within our framework. Women will be very active in our society, within our framework, said Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.
on the Taliban in these matters.
– Now there are a lot of proposals from the Taliban, they have had a woman interviewed and they say that no one should be afraid and so on. There has been no reason to place much faith in such Taliban statements. What has been said in the political leadership has not happened on the ground, Linde tells Ekot.
Now it is up to the Taliban to show that it is not just empty rhetoric, according to the 59-year-old Swedish Foreign Minister. "We demand human rights, democracy, girls' and women's rights, so that we have any contact with the Taliban at all," thunders Ann Linde. "The Taliban would be inclined to care about what Sweden's feminist government has to say may seem unlikely. Sweden, however, has a possible means of pressure in the form of the giant aid of one billion tax kroner a year that Sida has so far paid out to the country.