Mujahid Calls UN Security Council Meeting 'Useless' Without Taliban Representative

A Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said that a United Nations Security Council meeting on Afghanistan without the presence of a representative of the group is "useless”.

Mujahid said that the decisions of this meeting without the presence of the Taliban are also "complicated". The United Nations Security Council will hold a meeting on Afghanistan on Thursday, December 12.

In an interview with National Radio and Television on Thursday, Mujahid called for handing over Afghanistan's seat in the United Nations to the Taliban.

He claims that by handing over the UN seat to the Taliban, meetings on Afghanistan will be useful. According to the Taliban spokesman, without the presence of the group's representative, the Security Council meeting is "full of ambiguity”.

The UN Secretary-General's Special Representative Roza Otunbayeva is scheduled to speak at the meeting on the situation in Afghanistan.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said in a statement on Wednesday, December 11, that the meeting will be held on Thursday, December 12 at 7:30pm Afghan time.

The meeting is expected to review the human rights situation and the situation of women in Afghanistan.

The UN Security Council also held a meeting on Afghanistan in September to discuss the situation in the country.

Currently, the seat of Afghanistan is held by Nasir Ahmad Faiq, a diplomat of the former Afghan government.

The Taliban's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has nominated Suhail Shaheen as its representative to the United Nations, which has not been accepted.