According to the delegation, Taliban is looking for “worthy” global interaction, while “strong” and “develops” Afghanistan.
According to the media, a Taliban delegation has occurred in the East Asian country in Japan in Japan to visit the group’s first visit, which Afghanistan rules.
The delegation, consisting of external, educational, economic and health officers, came to a visit on Sunday, the newspaper Asahi Shimbun reported. The visit is a rarity for the Taliban, whose diplomatic trips have remained near Afghanistan since its recovery of power in 2021.
The representatives of Taliban are expected to seek humanitarian support and possibly discuss diplomatic relationships with Japanese civil servants.
Latif Nazari, a deputy minister in the Taliban Ministry of Economic Affairs, described the visit as part of the group’s efforts to become an “active member of the international community”.
“We are looking for a worthy interaction with the world for a strong, united, advanced, wealthy, developed Afghanistan and to be an active member of the international community,” wrote Nazari, who is part of the delegation, on Saturday in a post on X.
Care for Afghan diplomatic sources, Japan’s public broadcaster NHK said that representatives of the Taliban plan to “exchange views with Japanese government officials”.
Rare trip outside the region
While the Taliban government regularly visits neighboring and regional countries, including Central Asia, Russia and China, it rarely travels outside the region. Europe officially visited only for diplomatic peaks in Norway in 2022 and 2023.
The Japanese embassy in Kabul temporarily moved to Qatar after the fall of the former foreign government and the takeover by the Taliban in 2021.
A visit to the Taliban in Japan comes just a few days after Isil (ISIS) has taken responsibility for a fatal suicide attack outside the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing in Kabul, the latest in a number of attacks by the group.
Japan’s message condemned the attack and reported to X on Sunday that “these terrorist attacks had to stop immediately”.
We condemn the hideous terrorist attack in the DE Facto Ministry for Urban Development and Housing on February 13, which was killed and wounded into several people.
We express the sacrifices and families of those affected.– Japan Embassy in Afghanistan (@japaninialfg) February 16, 2025
