Addressing the United Nations General Assembly in New York, Afghanistan’s National Security Adviser Hamdullah Mohib said on Monday that peace must not be rushed at the risk of empowering the latter.
“Peace is our common objective and terrorists are our common enemy,” Mohib said the High-Level Debate of the 74thSession of the UNGA. “We must not rush the former, at the risk of empowering the latter.”
He said that Afghans fight on the frontlines of global terrorism so that other can maintain peace in their homes and on their land.
“But peace is not a permanent state of being,” Mohib said. “Peace requires care and constant reappraisal, undertaken by partners who share the same values, even as the fault lines between war and peace across the globe shift. The terrorists that Afghan soldiers are holding at bay today, pose a threat to us all.”
He also called for more decisive action within the region in the fight against terrorism.
“A strengthened collective security approach must take into account the wide nexus of transnational criminal activities as a whole, inching the the flow of terrorist fighters, their recruitment and resources that allow them to remain lethal,” he said.
He called on the Taliban and their “foreign sponsors” to join peace or “we will continue to fight.”
“This is a fight we can win.”
