Thank you, Mr. Chair.
To make it brief, the humanitarian crisis hasn't been caused because of these sanctions, whether on the international level or by individual countries. The humanitarian crisis is a direct consequence of the rise of the Taliban, of a terrorist group coming in and taking over a whole country, holding a whole population hostage and trying to exploit as much as possible from the situation. We don't see the sanctions themselves as the cause of this crisis or the reason for this crisis to continue or exacerbate.
What we've seen is that the Taliban use this as an excuse on the international stage to receive concessions. At the same time, they are using the humanitarian crisis as a reason to relieve that burden of statesmanship and the responsibility to provide for the population of Afghanistan...onto the shoulders of the international community.