China slams ‘hasty’ withdrawal of US troops from Afghan; urges UN to play ‘due role’

China has mentioned that the “hasty” withdrawal of the US troops from war-torn Afghanistan has severely affected the peace course of and the regional stability because it referred to as on the UN to play its “due role” and urged the SCO to pay extra consideration to the scenario.The problem of US withdrawal from Afghanistan figured within the telephonic dialog between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Pakistan counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Saturday.Wang mentioned that the “hasty withdrawal of the US troops from Afghanistan”, which is anticipated to be accomplished by September this 12 months, has severely impacted the Afghan home peace course of and negatively affected the regional stability.Under such circumstances, China expects the United Nations to play its “due role”, state-run Xinhua information company quoted Wang as saying.He, nevertheless, didn’t elaborate the UN’s “due role”.Wang additionally mentioned that the eight-member Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), of which India and Pakistan are members, ought to pay extra consideration to the scenario and Afghanistan’s neighbours to strengthen communication, converse in a single voice and take coordinated actions.China, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, India and Pakistan are the SCO members.Observers say that the US’ plan to hurry up its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan might have troubling penalties for China.China, whose risky Xinjiang province borders Afghanistan, has been expressing its concern over the US transfer regardless of tensions with Washington on a bunch of points, together with America’s allegation of a genocide towards Muslim Uygurs by the Chinese authorities in Xinjiang. It denies the allegations of working mass detention camps and violating human rights of Uygurs.The earlier Trump administration had additionally lifted a ban on the separatist East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), a Uygur militant outfit.The ETIM was designated as a terrorist organisation by the UN’s 1267 counter-terrorism committee in 2002 for its alleged affiliation with al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden and the Taliban.Reports from Afghanistan mentioned among the current assaults have been attributed to the consolidation of the Islamic State militants who fought in Syria till not too long ago.China is anxious that a whole bunch of Uygur militants, who joined the ISIS in Syria, might threaten the peace and stability in Xinjiang.Wang, in his cellphone talks with Qureshi, famous that Pakistan has an essential conventional affect on the Afghanistan problem.Pakistan was broadly believed to wield an affect over the Taliban because the management of the militant group is sheltered there.Wang mentioned China calls on all of the events within the war-torn nation to succeed in a political association acceptable to all sides beneath the “Afghan-led and Afghan-owned” framework and collectively search a improvement path suited to Afghanistan’s nationwide situations.Under the present circumstances, China and Pakistan ought to proceed to strengthen the strategic coordination in an effort to exert a extra optimistic affect on the peace course of in Afghanistan and collectively safeguard regional peace and stability, Wang mentioned.Reiterating the “all-weather” ties between China and Pakistan, Wang mentioned he expects the 2 international locations to take the chance of the seventieth anniversary of the institution of diplomatic ties to open up a brighter prospect for bilateral relations.Wang famous that over the previous 70 years, the 2 sides have firmly supported one another on points regarding one another’s core pursuits.He mentioned China will proceed to face firmly with Pakistan through the Covid-19 disaster till it fully wins the battle towards the contagion.Qureshi thanked China for its robust help of Pakistan’s struggle towards the Covid-19.The US and NATO ought to depart Afghanistan in an orderly and accountable method, he mentioned, including that Pakistan helps Afghanistan’s neighbouring international locations in taking part in a much bigger function in pushing ahead the peace course of.READ | US, UK, Germany conflict with China at UN over therapy of Uyghur Muslims in XinjiangREAD | A New Chapter in Afghanistan