Kabulov cited the U.S.’s hostile approach and imposition of sanctions on Afghanistan as the reason for this stance.
The special envoy of the Russian President for Afghanistan has said that Moscow and Washington have not had any direct contact or dialogue regarding Afghanistan so far.
Zamir Kabulov told the TASS news agency that in 2023, during a meeting on Afghanistan led by the UN Secretary-General in Doha, he and China’s representative refused to be part of a team with the United States.
Kabulov cited the U.S.’s hostile approach and imposition of sanctions on Afghanistan as the reason for this stance.
Kabulov added: “Tom West and I were present there. However, the Chinese special envoy for Afghanistan and I told the UN Secretary-General that we cannot be part of a team with a country that has stolen the Afghan people’s money and refuses to return it.”
The Russian President’s special envoy for Afghanistan also stated that Afghanistan’s economic activities are affected by sanctions, and Russia will cooperate with Afghanistan in this area if the opportunity arises.
Janat Faheem Chakari, a political analyst, stated: “What’s important is that in the competitive and tense regional environment, we adopt a policy that allows us to benefit from Russia which has now recognized the Islamic Emirate and also maintain good relations with China and the U.S., including economic and political interactions with them.”
Russia is the only country that has officially recognized the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and maintains strong political and economic ties with it.
Russia Rejects Direct Talks with US Over Afghanistan
The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation says that over the past nine months, 108 Afghan families have returned to the country from Tajikistan.
Amid the large-scale return of Afghan migrants from Iran and Pakistan, a number of Afghan migrants have also returned to Afghanistan from Tajikistan.
The Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation says that over the past nine months, 108 Afghan families have returned to the country from Tajikistan.
The ministry’s spokesperson said assistance to these families is being provided in accordance with established procedures.
Abdulmutalib Haqqani, spokesperson for the Ministry of Refugees and Repatriation, said: “Returning citizens have received assistance in line with the established guidelines after registration. They have also been referred to relevant departments to facilitate access to basic services and are being transported with dignity to their areas of origin.”
While the large-scale return of Afghan migrants from neighboring countries, particularly Iran and Pakistan, continues, it has brought challenges including inadequate infrastructure and a lack of employment opportunities.
Some migrant rights activists are calling for the creation of sustainable resettlement conditions, access to basic services, and job opportunities to support the effective reintegration of returnees into society.
Abdul Razzaq Adil, a migrant rights activist, told TOLOnews: “Tajikistan has never been a major destination for Afghan migrants and has stricter asylum policies. Returns from this country are largely voluntary rather than the result of widespread forced deportations. The role of international organizations regarding returnees from Tajikistan is more supervisory and protective than large-scale humanitarian assistance, as UN aid infrastructure along the northern borders is not as extensive as along the southern and western borders.”
Another migrant rights activist, Ali Reza Karimi, said: “After returning, these families face serious challenges, including unemployment, poverty, lack of job opportunities, inadequate housing, limited access to education, restrictions on basic services, as well as social and security issues.”
Earlier, the United Nations reported that nearly 1,600 Afghan nationals were deported from Tajikistan in 1403 (2024).
Afghan Families Return from Tajikistan Amid Regional Migrant Influx
According to them, the returnees received initial aid, and land has also been allocated to eligible families for shelter.
Officials at the Kandahar Directorate of Refugees and Repatriation say that during the past year (2025), a total of 492,028 individuals, including 32,829 prisoners, returned to Afghanistan via Spin Boldak.
According to them, the returnees received initial aid, and land has also been allocated to eligible families for shelter.
Nematullah Ulfat, Deputy Head of the Kandahar Directorate of Refugees and Repatriation, said: “From the beginning to the end of 2025, 77,394 families, totaling 492,028 individuals, returned from Pakistan through Spin Boldak. Among them, 32,829 were released from Pakistani prisons and repatriated.”
Many of the recent returnees believe Pakistan is no longer a suitable place for Afghans to live.
Jawed Ahmad, 30, who returned after a long and difficult stay in Pakistan, said Pakistani police often find different excuses to harass and deport Afghans.
He told TOLOnews: “There were many problems. I worked as a laborer and bought a motorcycle, but I was shot in the leg by robbers who stole it. I had just enough money at home to pay doctors for treatment. Now I need surgery, but I have no money.”
Another recent returnee, Ali Mohammad, said: “We need support. We have no land, and we lack basic household items.”
According to reports, Pakistan has dismantled refugee camps in Balochistan that had existed for decades and has forcibly removed Afghan refugees from the area, leading to a sharp decrease in the number of Afghans living in Pakistan.
Over 492,000 Afghans Returned via Spin Boldak from Pakistan in 2025
Pakistan has allowed over 6,000 Afghan trade containers stranded at Karachi port to be exported, easing financial burdens on traders amid ongoing border closures.
Pakistani authorities have approved the export of more than 6,000 transit containers belonging to Afghan traders from the port of Karachi, according to the country’s Ministry of Commerce, Pakistani media reported on Wednesday.
The decision follows requests from Afghan importers seeking relief from heavy storage costs at the port. The ministry has reportedly sent letters to individual traders who applied for permission to re-export their shipments.
Most of the delayed containers originated from Malaysia, carrying palm oil widely used in Afghanistan, while others included goods from China and Vietnam, all of which had been stuck at the port for months.
Border crossings between Afghanistan and Pakistan have remained closed since October 2025 due to military tensions, halting bilateral trade and leaving thousands of containers stranded in Karachi.
Earlier, Pakistan allowed United Nations aid shipments to pass through its ports to Afghanistan, but Taliban authorities reportedly blocked their distribution, further complicating humanitarian and commercial deliveries.
Afghan traders had requested a one-time exemption to facilitate the transfer of their goods, highlighting the financial strain caused by prolonged port congestion and halted cross-border commerce.
Pakistani authorities said they are working to ease the backlog and resume trade, while both side face pressure to stabilize commercial routes and support the movement of essential goods across the border.
Pakistan allows over 6,000 stranded Karachi port containers to be exported to Afghanistan
UNICEF said it needs $950 million to support 12 million people in Afghanistan, including 6.5 million children, amid worsening humanitarian conditions.
UNICEF said it urgently needs $950 million to meet the basic humanitarian needs of 12 million people in Afghanistan, including 6.5 million children, warning the funding is critical for survival and development.
The UN children’s agency said Afghans are facing overlapping crises, including natural disasters, a fragile economy, limited access to essential services and worsening climate shocks that continue to strain families nationwide.
UNICEF estimates that in 2026 around 22 million people, including 11.6 million children, will require humanitarian assistance across Afghanistan, highlighting the scale of the ongoing emergency.
The agency also warned of a growing protection crisis, saying pregnant women, children, young people and marginalized groups face increasing risks amid poverty, displacement and weakened social services.
UNICEF raised particular concern over what it described as a systematic erosion of women’s and girls’ rights, citing bans on education, employment restrictions and daily limitations that undermine resilience and carry long-term consequences.
Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis deepened after international aid declined sharply following the Taliban’s return to power, while banking restrictions and economic isolation have limited recovery efforts.
Repeated droughts, earthquakes and floods have compounded the crisis, leaving millions dependent on humanitarian assistance as climate-related shocks become more frequent and severe.
UNICEF urged the international community to act swiftly, warning that failure to secure the requested funding would place Afghanistan’s most vulnerable children and women at even greater risk in the year ahead.
UNICEF Seeks $950 Million To Support 12 Million People In Afghanistan
Senate hearing Wednesday will examine vetting failures after November terrorist attack by Afghan national in DC
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., said a Senate hearing Wednesday will expose how the Biden administration’s Afghan refugee program allowed scores of individuals with alleged terrorist ties to enter the United States — failures he argues put American lives at risk.
“I think we’re going to see tomorrow that pro-Hamas groups, pro-terrorist groups actually got money from the Biden administration to shepherd these parolees. It is a scandal. It’s outrageous,” Hawley told Fox News Digital on Wednesday.
“We’ve got to figure out how many people are here with national security concerns. And I can tell you, I think we’re going to hear testimony tomorrow that there are over 50 folks known in the country with terrorist ties who had hits on terrorist databases and were allowed to come into the country. I mean, over 50,” Hawley said.
The Senate hearing is titled, “Biden’s Afghan parolee program — a Trojan Horse with flawed vetting and deadly consequences.”
The hearing comes after an Afghan national shot a pair of National Guard members in Washington, D.C., in November, killing one and leaving the other in critical condition. The attack, which the FBI labeled an act of terrorism, raised questions among Republicans like Hawley about whether the administration had done enough to ensure the United States had screened the people it was attempting to help.
According to reporting from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the U.S. welcomed 76,000 evacuees during its Operation Allies Welcome in 2021, a directive from Biden to resettle vulnerable Afghans.
But other experts believe the number of total refugees goes much higher.
The Biden administration allowed more than 200,000 Afghan nationals into the country as the U.S. wound down nearly 20 years of military presence in Afghanistan, according to the conservative think tank Center for Immigration Studies. The failed attempt to prevent the Taliban from returning to power left many key American allies in the country worried that they could suffer retribution from a new government hostile to the U.S.
According to Nayla Rush, a senior researcher with the Center for Immigration Studies, the administration had paid little attention to admitting the Afghans who had assisted the U.S. in their time in Afghanistan — and those who hadn’t.
“They were not U.S. ‘allies,’ nor were they ‘persecuted’ individuals in need of refugee resettlement. Lacking immigrant visas, they were granted ‘parole,’ a temporary permission to enter and remain in the United States,” Rush wrote in a report released in December.
Although Hawley noted that the U.S. had received assistance from some of them, he said the government neglected its primary responsibility to protect its citizens by fast-tracking their admission to the country.
“Nobody has a right to come into this country. If you’re not an American citizen, you have no right to come into the country and just do whatever the heck you want on any basis,” Hawley said.
“We have an obligation to protect the country. And so, we ask when we come into the country, ‘Who are you?’ ‘Do you have terrorist ties?’ This is why we do interviews. And none of that happened. None of that happened with tens of thousands of [Afghans.] And listen, now we’re suffering the consequences of that.”
In addition to Rush, the committee will entertain testimony from several other immigration experts, including Craig Adelman, the deputy inspector general at the DHS office of audits, and Arne Baker, deputy inspector general for evaluations at the Department of War.
The committee is slated to begin its hearing at 2:00 p.m. EST.
Fox News’ Dan Scully contributed to this report.
Hawley expects ‘Trojan Horse’ hearing to reveal dozens of terror-linked Afghan parolees in US
Thousands of Afghan women and families returned from Pakistan and Iran struggle with poverty, lack of shelter, and growing human rights concerns.
Afghanistan is witnessing a growing humanitarian crisis as thousands of women and families are forcibly deported from neighboring countries, particularly Pakistan and Iran. Returnees report severe economic hardship, lack of shelter, and limited access to basic services, highlighting urgent human rights concerns.
Many of these women-headed households had previously relied on work in Iran and Pakistan. Forced returns have left them without financial support, pushing families into extreme poverty during harsh winter conditions. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) warns that over two million returnees face critical livelihood challenges.
Forced deportations are compounding an already dire refugee situation. Afghan migrants, especially women and children, are sent back to regions where gender-based violence, early or forced marriages, and restricted freedoms are prevalent. Human rights organizations have repeatedly called for protection measures for these vulnerable groups.
Journalists and media workers in Afghanistan also face severe threats. Reporting on forced deportations, women’s rights, and protests has become increasingly dangerous. Many face harassment, detention, or violence for covering sensitive issues, further limiting the public’s access to critical information.
Access to food, shelter, and healthcare remains extremely limited. Only 11% of returnees have employment, while one in four lacks adequate housing according to UN reports. Over half of households cannot meet basic needs, and female-headed households suffer disproportionately from food insecurity and unemployment. UN reports indicate that women comprise nearly half of all returnees from Pakistan and a third from Iran.
The UN reported that roughly 75% of Afghans are unemployed, while 90% live below the poverty line, highlighting the country’s severe economic and humanitarian crisis.
Ongoing unrest in Iran, including widespread protests, has affected Afghan refugees, forcing many to return under unsafe conditions. Similarly, increased deportations from Pakistan have strained Afghanistan’s border regions, creating urgent humanitarian and security concerns.
Human rights groups stress the need for immediate intervention to protect women, children, and journalists, and to ensure safe and dignified conditions for refugees. Without international support, Afghanistan risks a worsening cycle of displacement, rights violations, and economic collapse.
Afghan Women Face Hardship Amid Forced Returns from Pakistan, Iran
ABC granted rare interview with the senior Taliban figure. (ABC)
Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban’s chief spokesman, is rarely seen sitting across from a woman, let alone agreeing to a long, unscripted interview.
But on a recent cold morning in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, he and I sat down in the Taliban’s Media and Information Center for one of the group’s few interviews with a Western journalist since taking over the country four years ago.
He allowed the ABC to broadcast our conversation on one non-negotiable condition: we could not appear in the same frame on camera.
Sitting opposite me, rarely meeting my eyes, he spent an hour answering questions about life in Taliban-run Afghanistan, the economy, the ban on girls’ education, rising child malnutrition, tensions with Pakistan, and the country’s deepening isolation from much of the world since the US-Afghanistan war ended in 2021.
That tightly managed compromise offers a revealing snapshot of where the Taliban finds itself four years on: eager to be heard, suspicious of the West, deeply resistant to scrutiny, and unwilling to shift on its core ideology.
I travelled from New Delhi to Kabul for nine days in late November, months after a powerful earthquake devastated parts of eastern Afghanistan.
It was the ABC’s first reporting trip on the ground in eight years, and the first since the fall of Kabul. We had hoped to go sooner, but visa delays and competing crises elsewhere in South Asia pushed the trip back.
Inside Afghanistan, the message from the Taliban is women should not be seen, and certainly not heard. (ABC News: Haidarr Jones)
Taliban officials made it clear they wanted Western media attention, particularly after the quake, and some expressed frustration that we had not arrived earlier. Yet access came layered with control.
Reporting in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan is unlike anywhere else I’ve worked in the region. Journalists have to register with both the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Information and Culture.
Permissions are layered and complex. You need one to operate in Kabul, others to cross provincial lines. You must declare where you are going, who you will meet and what you intend to cover.
The Taliban wants international coverage, but only within boundaries it sets.
Throughout the interview, Mujahid framed the Taliban’s rule as an unqualified success. He pointed to the end of war as its defining achievement, insisting Afghans now “live like brothers.”
He claimed economic progress, citing thousands of new factories, a stable national currency, major infrastructure projects and falling unemployment.
The reality is Afghanistan’s economy has contracted sharply since 2021. Half a million jobs have disappeared. More than half the population is food insecure. Yet when asked about the worsening economic crisis, Mujahid returned repeatedly to a single explanation: 40 years of war. Recovery, he said, would simply take time.
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The same pattern emerged on the most contentious issue of all: girls’ education. Four years after secondary schools were closed to girls, Mujahid wouldn’t offer a timeline or even acknowledge that girls were suffering.
The decision, he says, rests with the Taliban’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada.
There was no recognition that this policy sits at the heart of Afghanistan’s diplomatic isolation.
Mujahid dismissed the lack of international recognition as a failure of Western policy, particularly that of the United States, rather than a consequence of Taliban decisions.
He argued Afghanistan had strong ties with China, Russia and the Islamic world, suggesting countries like Australia were simply following Washington’s lead.
Australia continues to provide humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan but refuses to recognise the Taliban amid mounting concern over women’s rights, governance and security.
That stance clearly frustrates Taliban officials.
“What problem does Australia have with us?” one senior official asked me when I introduced myself as an Australian journalist.
The Taliban sees Australia as unusually rigid. While countries like the United States and the United Kingdom maintain limited engagement, Australia has drawn a firmer line, sanctioning senior Taliban leaders over the treatment of women and girls.
For most Afghans, the economy has never been something they could rely on. (ABC News: Haidarr Jones)
Taliban officials also view Australia’s Afghan diaspora, vocal and politically active, as hostile to their interests. And they reject the idea that their policies, particularly towards women, should be subject to international scrutiny.
Across the interview, a clear governing philosophy emerged. On issue after issue, Mujahid denied the scale of the problem, shifted responsibility elsewhere, and argued that time, and the lifting of international sanctions, would resolve what governance has not.
That approach was evident on security and regional tensions. Mujahid rejected claims that the Taliban provides shelter or support to Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, an armed group responsible for deadly attacks inside Pakistan, dismissing those accusations as baseless.
Any Pakistani military strike inside Afghanistan, he warned, would be met with a response, though he insisted the Taliban would not initiate conflict.
It resurfaced again in his account of mass deportations from neighbouring countries. More than 1.5 million Afghans have been forced back from Iran and Pakistan in recent months, many of them families who had been sending money home from abroad.
Afghanistan’s economy has contracted sharply since 2021. (ABC News: Haidarr Jones)
Mujahid described the returns as voluntary and orderly, saying people were being housed, employed and supported, and rejected the idea their sudden return could further strain an economy already under severe pressure.
That optimism obscures a deeper reality. For most Afghans, the economy has never been something they could rely on.
For decades, daily life was sustained by foreign money, from international military spending to aid programs that paid salaries and kept cities running. When those dollars disappeared after 2021, so did much of the work that depended on them.
In their place, humanitarian agencies stepped in, providing just enough cash to keep clinics open and families fed, but not enough to rebuild livelihoods or offer a path out of poverty.
Beyond the cities, the picture is even starker. In many villages, there is no reliable electricity, no paved roads, and little formal employment. Survival depends on subsistence farming, small-scale livestock rearing or informal trade.
For years, a critical pressure valve has been labour migration. Millions of Afghans worked in neighbouring Iran and Pakistan, sending money home to support families with few other sources of income. That safety net is now fraying.
Mass deportations from both countries have forced hundreds of thousands of Afghans back into an economy with limited capacity to absorb them.
UN agencies estimate 3.7 million Afghan children are malnourished. (ABC News: Haidarr Jones)
On the ground, families also told a different story to the Taliban, of debt, shrinking opportunities and growing dependence on aid.
Nowhere was the gap between official narrative and lived reality more apparent than on child malnutrition.
Asked about rising rates of acute malnutrition, which health workers say are contributing to preventable child deaths, Mujahid downplayed the scale of the crisis.
He claimed only “two or three children out of a hundred” were affected, describing this as normal and primarily a humanitarian issue rather than a failure of governance. Sanctions were to blame, according to him.
UN agencies estimate 3.7 million Afghan children are malnourished — far more than Mujahid’s estimate — with 1.7 million at risk of dying.
In a Kabul malnutrition ward, children lay listless and dangerously underweight, some battling life-threatening infections. In earthquake camps and flattened villages in Kunar province, families spoke of hunger, debt and an inability to cope.
Beneath the surface calm of post-war Afghanistan, the country is struggling under the weight of overlapping crises: economic collapse, shrinking aid, natural disasters and the return of millions with nowhere to go.
And throughout it all, women remain largely unseen.
In Afghanistan, girls are not permitted to go to school beyond grade 6. (ABC News: Haidarr Jones)
Restrictions on women are imposed not only by Taliban edicts, but reinforced by deeply conservative social norms that predate the group’s return to power. Outside major cities, women are rarely allowed to speak to outsiders without male relatives present. In many places, they are effectively invisible.
That reality played out repeatedly during our reporting. At a relief camp, a family initially agreed to let the women of the household speak on camera. Hours later, the permission was withdrawn. Male relatives explained they were worried about the family’s honour, not because of any explicit Taliban order, but because of how the women might be perceived by others in the community.
Even where the Taliban was not physically present, men on the ground, neighbours, elders and passers-by, regularly intervened, reminding us not to film women, not to approach them, not to ask questions.
The message was constant and unmistakable: women should not be seen, and certainly not heard.
This social conservatism helps explain why the Taliban’s worldview finds broader acceptance in many rural areas. Its rules do not exist in a vacuum; they align closely with long-standing customs that already restrict women’s public lives. That alignment makes resistance harder, and silence easier.
Many of the women most able to openly challenge Taliban rule — such as judges, lawyers and activists — have left the country, though recent deportations have forced some back to the very place they once fled.
Afghanistan’s social conservatism helps explain why the Taliban’s worldview finds broader acceptance in many rural areas. (ABC News: Haidarr Jones)
For most Afghans, the debate over recognition, sanctions and diplomacy is distant. What shapes daily life is survival.
Across the country, people are enduring overlapping crises, poverty, hunger, displacement and loss, with little sense that relief is imminent. Parents ration food. Families take on debt. Women withdraw further from public life. The future, for now, feels narrow and uncertain.
And yet, resilience persists. In markets, in villages and in overcrowded hospital wards, people adapt because they must.
Four years after the fall of Kabul, Afghanistan is quieter, but not at peace. The war has ended, yet the stability that followed, especially for women, remains conditional, constrained and profoundly unequal.
In a rare interview, the Taliban’s chief spokesman exposes the gap between narrative and reality
KABUL, Jan. 13 (Xinhua) — Afghan government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Monday in an interview that Afghanistan does not accept any form of foreign military presence and will never hand over Bagram Air Base to the United States.
U.S. President Donald Trump had threatened last year to reoccupy Bagram Air Base, located about 50 kilometers north of the Afghan capital Kabul.
“Bagram Air Base is an integral part of Afghan territory, and we will not allow the military of another country to be stationed on Afghan soil. We have repeatedly stated this position.” Mujahid said in the interview.
The last time Mujahid expressed similar views was at a press conference held in Kabul on Oct. 12 last year, when he noted that the Afghan government was willing to engage in political and economic exchanges with all countries, including the United States, and hoped that “the United States would reopen its embassy in Kabul and initiate positive engagement through diplomatic channels, rather than insist on focusing on Bagram Air Base.” ■
Afghanistan reiterates it will not allow foreign military presence
Around 2.4 million Afghan migrants returning from neighboring countries struggle with unemployment, inadequate shelter, and limited access to essential services, IOM says.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported that only 11 percent of returning Afghan migrants have jobs, leaving the majority without income.
The organization stated on Sunday on its social media platform X that one in four returnees does not have access to adequate shelter, highlighting severe housing shortages across the country.
More than half of the returnees do not possess official identification or essential documents, restricting their access to government services, banking, education, and employment.
Many returnees also face limited access to basic services, livelihoods, and support mechanisms, IOM added.
The UN reported in late December that Afghanistan’s unemployment rate stands at 75 percent, exacerbating the challenges faced by returning migrants.
Over 90 percent of Afghanistan’s population lives below the poverty line, with falling per capita income, declining GDP, and reduced humanitarian aid driving widespread poverty.
Without targeted support, experts warn that the combination of unemployment, poverty, and lack of documentation will continue to hinder the reintegration of millions of Afghan returnees.
The United Nations says aid workers are still in a “race against time” to remove rubble and rebuild after the devastating earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan last month, killing at least 2,200 people and cutting off remote areas.
The 6.0-magnitude quake on Aug. 31 was shallow, destroying or causing extensive damage to low-rise buildings in the mountainous region. It hit late at night, and homes — mostly made of mud, wood, or rocks — collapsed instantly, becoming death traps.
Satellite data shows that about 40,500 truckloads of debris still needs to be cleared from affected areas in several provinces, the United Nations Development Program said Wednesday. Entire communities have been upended and families are sleeping in the open, it added.
The quake’s epicenter was in remote and rugged Kunar province, challenging rescue and relief efforts by the Taliban government and humanitarian groups. Authorities deployed helicopters or airdropped army commandos to evacuate survivors. Aid workers walked for hours on foot to reach isolated communities.
“This is a race against time,” said Devanand Ramiah, from the UNDP’s Crisis Bureau. “Debris removal and reconstruction operations must start safely and swiftly.”
People’s main demands were the reconstruction of houses and water supplies, according to a spokesman for a Taliban government committee tasked with helping survivors, Zia ur Rahman Speenghar.
People were getting assistance in cash, food, tents, beds, and other necessities, Speenghar said Thursday. Three new roads were under construction in the Dewagal Valley, and roads would be built to areas where there previously were none.
“Various countries and organizations have offered assistance in the construction of houses but that takes time. After the second round of assistance, work will begin on the third round, which is considering what kind of houses can be built here,” the spokesman said.
Afghanistan is facing a “perfect storm” of crises, including natural disasters like the recent earthquake, said Roza Otunbayeva, who leads the U.N. mission to the country.
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