SRSG BRIEFING TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL Briefing to the United Nations Security Council

And the ongoing mismatch of expectations and distrust between the de facto authorities and important parts of international community is depriving the diplomatic engagement effort of the momentum it needs if we are to implement the recommendations of the Independent Assessment. [...] The United Nations invited representatives of the de facto authorities to the third meeting in the Doha format last July. [...] It gives extensive and discretionary powers of enforcement to the de facto Ministry for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice. [...] I have urged the de facto authorities to receive our observations in the good faith in which they are offered, and for the sake of the Afghan people and their concerns about their future. [...] But unnecessarily harsh policies and allocation of resources that appear heavily skewed towards security concerns rather than the needs of the people undermine these achievements and the well-being of the Afghan people.