Taliban in Norway – Challenges negotiations:
– The Taliban has nothing to do in Norway! FRP leader Sylvi Listhaug was immediately out when it became known that the Taliban was on its way to Oslo.
But so far only the FRP has clearly distanced itself from the fact that representatives from the Taliban are in place in Norway.
Red leader Bjørnar Moxnes believes there is now power over the Norwegian government doing everything it can to protect those who are now in danger due to the Taliban’s capture.
He believes that in dialogue with the Taliban, strict demands must be made for the protection of the opposition, democracy activists, women activists, minorities and others.
– The worst that can happen is that they shoot me
Must make demands
“Norway has taken part in a failed war in which 170,000 people have been killed and millions forced to flee, with the result that the Taliban have now regained power and millions on the brink of starvation,” Moxnes told Dagbladet.
He says Rødt is tired of governments that drag Norway into the US and NATO’s “dubious” wars, with promises of democracy and human rights, running away from responsibility when the wars fail and leaving the victims in the lurch.
– Absurd and unheard of
– The least the Støre government can do now is to make demands on the Taliban to ensure that former employees of the Norwegian defense, democracy activists, women’s rights activists, minorities, refugees who were wrongfully forcibly deported from Norway, Norwegian-trained soldiers and others who are now in danger because they have collaborated with – or worked for Norway, get out and get a safe place to live, Moxnes continues.
– A shame for Norway
This summer, the Solberg government instructed the Norwegian Directorate of Immigration that locally employed Afghans with ongoing contracts with Norway should be granted residence in Norway.
Afghans who previously worked for Norway, but no longer had a contract, did not get the same opportunity.
It comes with responsibility – and risk
In June, Taliban interpreters who had worked for foreign forces urged them to repent, but at the same time urged them to remain in Afghanistan. After foreign forces had left the country, the interpreters were to be assured that they would not be harmed, NTB wrote.
Shortly after the Taliban seized power, the Taliban generally declared amnesty for government and military personnel. But despite promises not to assert itself, the Taliban have tracked down people who worked for foreign forces, according to a UN report.
Moxnes believes it is unsustainable if Norway does not use these days the opportunity to enter into dialogue to secure and way out for Afghans who could potentially be in danger of death after cooperating with Norway.
– It is a shame for Norway that our authorities have failed Afghans who have worked for the Norwegian Armed Forces and the Norwegian state. Then it is untenable if the Støre government invites the Taliban to Norway without using the opportunity to secure and way out for Afghans who have been employed in the Norwegian defense and others who are now in danger of death because they have cooperated with Norway, Moxnes concludes.