Foreign Ministry State Secretary Levente Magyar said Tuesday’s meeting of European Union foreign ministers on the situation in Afghanistan was “disappointing”.
“Although Europe could have made a serious impact on the events, it merely watches paralysed and issues lamenting statements on the infringement on human rights,” Magyar said. The allied forces led by the United States have “found themselves in a humiliating, hitherto unimaginable situation,” Magyar said. After a twenty-year conflict claiming 250,000 lives, it is now “up to the goodwill of the Taliban whether they can rescue their own citizens and the Afghans helping them,” he said.