Original title: United Nations: freezing assets will cause a serious recession in Afghanistan's economy
Freezing Afghan assets will trigger a severe economic recession in Afghanistan and lead millions of Afghans to poverty and hunger, a UN official warned Wednesday.
Deborah Lyons, the special representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Afghanistan, said at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the 9th that it is necessary to find a way to let funds flow into Afghanistan quickly, so as to prevent the collapse of economic and social order in Afghanistan. Lyons said that freezing Afghan assets will plunge the Afghan people into poverty, and the Afghan economy must be allowed to operate normally. In this regard, the representatives of China and Russia said that the assets of Afghanistan belong to Afghanistan and should be used in Afghanistan, not as a chip for threats and constraints.

It is reported that most of the assets of the Central Bank of Afghanistan of about US $10 billion are overseas. At present, these assets are used by western countries as a tool to put pressure on the Afghan Taliban. The U.S. Treasury said it would not relax sanctions against the Taliban or restrictions on the Taliban's access to international financial markets. The International Monetary Fund also recently frozen hundreds of millions of dollars of emergency reserves, which were originally planned to be provided to Afghanistan.

In addition, according to Afghan media reports, a member of the Taliban Cultural Committee said on the 9th that the Taliban had closed the bank accounts of some former Afghan government officials. The member said that most of these former government officials had left Afghanistan.