{"id":700212,"date":"2021-08-30T15:36:16","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T19:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=700212"},"modified":"2021-08-30T15:36:20","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T19:36:20","slug":"russia-calls-on-us-to-release-afghanistans-bank-reserves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-calls-on-us-to-release-afghanistans-bank-reserves\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Calls on US To Release Afghanistan\u2019s Bank Reserves"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frussia-calls-on-us-to-release-afghanistans-bank-reserves%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=700212&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div readability=\"30.089552238806\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">More than $9 billion could go to Taliban<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1231789492-736x520-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1231789492-736x520-1.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1231789492-1024x723.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1231789492-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1231789492-1536x1085.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1231789492-2048x1446.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1231789492-1400x989.jpg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tU.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad and Russia&#8217;s Special Representative on Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov attend a press briefing following an international conference on Afghanistan over the peaceful solution to the conflict in Moscow on March 18, 2021. \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 August 30, 2021 3:30 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"71.084052703317\">\n<p><span>A Russian official pressed the United States to release billions of dollars from the Afghanistan central bank&#8217;s reserves, a move that could aid the Taliban.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Kremlin envoy to Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov challenged the United States and its allies to lift restrictions on the nation\u2019s leading financial institution, which has more than $9 billion in reserves. U.S. officials froze access to the bank&#8217;s reserves held in U.S. institutions in mid-August. <\/span><span>Kabulov also said Moscow is vying to keep normalized relations with the Taliban.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;If our Western colleagues are actually worried about the fate of the Afghan people, then we must not create additional problems for them by freezing gold and foreign exchange reserves,&#8221; Kabulov <a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1331641\">said<\/a>. &#8220;We are already building [ties with the Taliban], our embassy in Kabul is working, and quite actively\u2026. We need to maintain normal relations with any government in Afghanistan.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Taliban officials on Aug. 23 appointed a new bank governor, who is considered a loyalist to the terrorist group. Republican lawmakers expressed concern to the <\/span><i><span>Washington Free Beacon <\/span><\/i><span>that the group could seize enormous financial assets from the bank, enriching its regime and allowing its rule to grow over the war-torn nation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The move may also reveal a broader strategy from Russia to destabilize the American exit from Afghanistan. Russia has kept working relations with the Taliban even as the Kremlin arms its allies in neighboring countries. <\/span><span>Richard Fontaine, the CEO of the Center for a New American Security and a member of the Vandenberg Coalition\u2019s advisory board, told the <\/span><i><span>Free Beacon<\/span><\/i><span> Russia has a major interest in forcing the United States to &#8220;bleed out&#8221; of Afghanistan through a bitter withdrawal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Russia has had a couple of interests since all this has proceeded. One is in seeing the United States not effortlessly leave Afghanistan, but bleed out of Afghanistan,&#8221; Fontaine said. &#8220;The U.S. government has accused the Russians of providing assistance to the Taliban\u2026. Certainly the [Russians] have not wanted to see a clean [American] exit out of Afghanistan and have engaged with the Taliban for the past five years or so.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security More than $9 billion could go to Taliban  U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad and Russia&#8217;s Special Representative on Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-700212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}