![]() ![]() ![]() “We must focus for the next three or four months on helping the most vulnerable Afghans during the winter,” Lyons said. Lyons urged the international community to find ways to provide financial support to the Afghan people, who she said “feel abandoned, forgotten and indeed punished by circumstances that are not their fault." Abandoning them “would be a historic mistake,” she said. The number of attacks attributed to IS has increased significantly from 60 last year to 334 this year, she said. She said a “major negative development” has been the Taliban’s inability to stem the expansion of the Islamic State extremist group, which now seems to be present in nearly all provinces and is increasingly active. Lyons said the “paralysis of the banking sector will push more of the financial system into unaccountable and unregulated informal money exchanges.” That, she said, "can only help facilitate terrorism, trafficking and further drug smuggling” that will first affect Afghanistan and then “infect the region.” 23 from the International Monetary Fund, but the IMF blocked the release because of a “lack of clarity” about a new government. ![]() Afghanistan was also slated to access about $450 million on Aug. The Afghanistan central bank’s $9 billion in reserves, most of which is held in the United States, were frozen after the collapse of the former government. Sanctions “have paralyzed the banking system, affecting every aspect of the economy,” Lyons said. Security Council that a humanitarian catastrophe “is preventable,” saying the main cause is financial sanctions on the Taliban, who took over the country Aug. ![]()
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