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China offers Afghanistan $31m in aid
China has announced that it is offering at least $31m worth of emergency aid, including coronavirus vaccines to Afghanistan as the Taliban revealed the members of its new government.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made the announcement on Wednesday during a meeting with foreign ministers of Afghanistan’s neighbouring countries, including Pakistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan
The emergency aid will include grain, winter supplies, medicines as well as three million COVID-19 vaccine doses, Wang said.
In recent days the Taliban has declared that China will be its “main partner” in rebuilding the war-torn country.
In his remarks on Wednesday, Wang was quoted by Xinhua state news agency as saying that Afghanistan is “standing at the crossroads”, as its faces humanitarian crises including the COVID-19 pandemic.
Al Jazeera
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