New Delhi:
An area Afghan employees working on the “closed” Indian Consulate in Afghanistan’s Jalalabad, sustained minor accidents following an incident, MEA Sources instructed ANI on Tuesday.
In keeping with the sources, they’re in contact with Afghan authorities on the matter and are additionally awaiting a report on the incident.
“We’re in contact with Afghan authorities and awaiting a report on the incident,” the MEA supply mentioned.
India had closed its Consulate in Jalalabad in 2020 itself.
As per the Ministry of Exterior Affairs, The diplomatic presence of Afghanistan in Delhi and the Consulates of Afghanistan in Mumbai and Hyderabad proceed to operate in India. Between 2021-22, some Afghan diplomats left India since they obtained residency in third international locations. Nevertheless, the remaining Afghan diplomats primarily based in India have taken over the duty for the continued diplomatic functioning of the Afghanistan.
India has additionally partnered with the United Nations Workplace on Medicine and Crime (UNODC) in Afghanistan to offer help for the welfare of Afghan drug person inhabitants, particularly ladies. Below this partnership, India has, since 2022, equipped 11,000 items of hygiene kits, child meals, blankets, clothes, medical support and different miscellaneous gadgets to UNODC, Kabul, as per MEA.
India’s strategy to Afghanistan continues to be guided by its historic relations, friendship with its individuals and related UN Resolutions, together with UNSCR 2593. The India primarily based personnel of the Embassy in Kabul returned to India within the aftermath of the takeover by the Taliban.
Since June 2022, an Indian technical crew is positioned within the Embassy and is energetic in respect of humanitarian help and different conditions. India’s stance in regard to recognition of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is in consonance with that of the worldwide group.
Holding in thoughts the deteriorating state of affairs in that nation, India determined to help Afghan individuals by supplying humanitarian support. On this endeavor, India equipped a number of shipments of humanitarian help consisting of fifty,000 MTs of wheat, 250 tons of medical support and 28 tons of earthquake reduction support. These consignments had been handed over to the United Nations World Meals Programme (UNWFP), United Nations Workplace for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA), Indira Gandhi Institute of Youngster Well being (IGICH) and Afghan Purple Crescent Society (ARCS), as per MEA.
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