The Taliban’s Ministry of Finance announced that Mohammad Naeem, the Deputy for Financial and Administrative Affairs, met with Giles Bertrand, the European Union’s Special Representative. They discussed expanding political, economic, and commercial relations as well as sustainable cooperation.<\/p>\n
According to a statement from the ministry, both sides focused on developing bilateral cooperation and creating new opportunities for economic engagement. No further details about the meeting location or specific agreements were disclosed.<\/p>\n
During the meeting, Mohammad Naeem expressed gratitude for the European Union’s humanitarian aid but emphasized that such assistance should move beyond emergency relief and be transformed into sustainable development programs\u2014a key demand given the country’s economic crisis and widespread unemployment.<\/p>\n
In response, the EU Special Representative stated that European markets remain open to Afghan exports, specifically highlighting significant access for Afghan dried fruit to these markets. However, the continuation and expansion of these relations depend on stability, trade standards, and official interactions\u2014issues complicated by internal restrictions and the lack of formal international recognition of the Taliban administration by many countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Taliban’s finance deputy meets EU envoy to discuss expanding political and economic cooperation, emphasizing sustainable development beyond emergency aid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}