The path to Afghanistan's future is open through the last 20 years of the republic.
Author: Abdul Naser Noorzad, security and geopolitics researcher, especially for Sangar
This August is the third year of Afghanistan under the Taliban. The unexpected fall of the republic and the withdrawal of the international community from Afghanistan provided the ground for the Taliban to dominate all of Afghanistan. The practice of democracy in Afghanistan, despite the presence of the international community for twenty years, was a failed exercise and faced a dead end.
The presence of the international community in Afghanistan for twenty years, despite tangible achievements in the field of women's presence in Afghanistan, higher education, ensuring Afghanistan's connection with the outside world, and the strong presence of the media, could not achieve success. Finally, the Taliban came to power and all the achievements were destroyed.
Today's Taliban are no different from the Taliban of 1996. Repressive regime, anti-women and against democratic values, closed society and far from modern governance, prohibition of political parties, prohibition of women's education and structural repression are among the actions of the Taliban, which in these three years, contrary to the expectations of the people and the world, They have done that.
Now, the situation in Afghanistan is facing an impasse. Understanding with the Taliban is unattainable based on its ideological and extreme character, and this is the reason why no country has yet come forward to recognize the Taliban regime and establish official and diplomatic relations with it.
The temporary and based on necessity interaction has made the ground favorable for strengthening the foundations of the Taliban regime. SIGAR, the Office of the Special Inspector General of the United States for the reconstruction of Afghanistan, announced last week that in these three years, nearly 21 billion dollars have been aided to Afghanistan under the control of the Taliban. It has caused the Taliban regime to become more repressive and boldly continue its authoritarian rule.
Considering the world situation, the crisis in Ukraine, the conflict in the Middle East, developments in the European Union, South Asia and Africa, political problems in South America, our world today is witnessing anarchy and Afghanistan cannot be considered a separate crisis.
Here, there is a need to solve the problem of Afghanistan in a fundamental way through a multilateral mechanism, active regional and extra-regional participation, agreement on securing peace in this country and creating a democratic environment where Afghans can rule their own destiny. This mechanism, characterized by multilateralism, in the beginning, rejects any kind of dispute, and in the second step, it will provide the basis for a peaceful transfer of power in this country, which has been involved in a decades-long crisis.
For this reason, it is necessary for the region and the extra region, including the members of the United Nations Security Council, regional and international mechanisms and structures, including the European Union, to take immediate action to send multinational peacekeeping forces to Afghanistan.
The geography of Afghanistan should be declared civilian and an interim government should be established for six months. Within six months, the necessary platform for the elections will be created and the constitution of Afghanistan, which was in force until the fall of the republican system, will be re-approved with minor amendments.
During this period, it is necessary to restore the structures of the Afghan government and provide services to the citizens. The model of the Swiss system, neutrality in regional and extra-regional conflicts, and a political structure appropriate to the needs of this country should be established.
In this way, the achievements of the past twenty years of Afghanistan, which were obtained as a result of the presence of the international community, will be preserved and an end point will be provided for the deadlock in Afghanistan.
