Rome:
Italian leader Mario Draghi announced Wednesday the G20 world financial powers will hold a summit on Afghanistan next month in a bid to avert a humanitarian disaster.
“There will be an extraordinary G20 summit on Afghanistan on October 12,” Draghi told reporters.
“We want to see if it’s possible for the 20 richest countries in the world to have common objectives.”
Rome, which holds the rotating presidency of the G20 forum, has been looking for to widen the international discussion on the Afghan crisis to nations like Russia and China.
“I hear endlessly that a humanitarian catastrophe is about to happen because Afghanistan has no support from the rest of the world,” Draghi stated.
“I think it’s the duty of the world’s richest countries to do something to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe,” he added.
The summit will also look at what measures the international neighborhood can take “to stop Afghanistan from again becoming a hotbed of international terrorism”.
The gathering will be open to other participants like the United Nations, the Netherlands, Spain, and Qatar, he added.
It is probably the Afghanistan summit will be held by video-hyperlink.
G20 heads of state or government are currently scheduled to attend in particular person the primary G20 summit in Rome on October 30 and 31.
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