UN faces challenges in Afghanistan amid Taliban takeover.
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said it was not the right time for him to directly engage with the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan at an international conference on Afghanistan organised by the United Nations in Doha. Representatives of some 20 countries participated in the closed-door conference aimed at coordinating with international players on issues facing Afghanistan such as humanitarian crisis, women’s rights and counterterrorism. The Taliban has criticised the two-day meeting, saying its exclusion was “discriminatory and unjustified”. Afghanistan is among the largest humanitarian crises in the world today, and UN funding was drying up.
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