DOHA (Reuters) – Qatar believes that recognising the Taliban government in Afghanistan is not a priority now, and that the focus should be on engaging with the new administration and addressing humanitarian issues, a senior Qatari official said on Tuesday.
“We think this (recognition) is not a priority. What’s more a priority as we speak now is the humanitarian, is the education, is free passage of passengers,” Mutlaq Al-Qahtani, special envoy to the Qatari foreign minister, said at a global security forum in Doha.
(Reporting by Andrew Mills in Doha; Writing by Ghaida Ghantous)
