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    Christopher Cavoli “Russians don't have the numbers necessary to do a strategic breakthrough. More to the point, they don't have the skill and capability to do it, to operate at the scale necessary to exploit any breakthrough to strategic advantage. They do have the ability to make local advances and they have done some of that.” 15 hours ago
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    Nazar Voloshin “The situation in the Kharkiv sector remains complicated but is evolving in a dynamic manner. Our defence forces have partially stabilised the situation. The advance of the enemy in certain zones and localities has been halted.” 20 hours ago
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    Volodymyr Zelenskiy “The situation in the Kharkiv region is generally under control, and our soldiers are inflicting significant losses on the occupier. However, the area remains extremely difficult.” 20 hours ago
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    Bezalel Smotrich “Defense Minister Gallant announced today his support for the establishment of a Palestinian terrorist state as a reward for terrorism and Hamas for the most terrible massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust.” 20 hours ago
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    Yoav Gallant “I must reiterate … I will not agree to the establishment of Israeli military rule in Gaza. Israel must not establish civilian rule in Gaza.” 21 hours ago
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#Taliban

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“In the situation where there is a lot of disunity and the political community of Afghanistan has not taken steps to unite and have a common position at the negotiation table, the talks will further weaken our position and further boost that of the Taliban.”

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Former deputy speaker of Afghanistan’s parliament
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“Restarting girls' schools is a good thing, [but] they need to be firm on their promise. These words should not just be for the sake of taking a stand. The Taliban does not like to see young girls at all. The big obstacle for girls [in Afghanistan] is that the Taliban says they should only leave the house with a mahram [male guardian]. The second problem is that if women are not allowed to work, education is meaningless.”

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Kabul-based women’s rights activist
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“Charity from people helped me a lot. But now, there's nothing [coming in] and I understand why. People are jobless. There are thousands of widows in this country who used to work. Now that the Taliban has taken over the country, all women have been made to stay home. What can a woman do to support her family? Things were better before. My kids were going to school - girls and boys. We used to receive donations, and women were free.”

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Widowed mother of six from Shemol village on the outskirts of Jalalabad
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“We share with Qatar the understanding that some operational engagement with the interim government is necessary, but without granting them any legitimacy. This engagement has to be conditional on progress made by the Taliban along the five benchmarks that we defined back in September.”

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EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
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“There are a number of reasons why these reserves remain inaccessible. First and foremost, the status of the funds is the subject of ongoing litigation, brought by certain victims of 9/11 and other terrorist attacks to hold judgments against the Taliban. These legal proceedings cannot be disregarded and have led to the temporary suspension of any movement of the funds through at least the end of the year and quite possibly longer. Second, the United States continues to face difficult fundamental questions about how it might be able to make reserve funds available to directly benefit the people of Afghanistan while ensuring that the funds do not benefit the Taliban. And, obviously, our objective as one of the world's biggest providers of humanitarian assistance is to get that assistance directly to the people. It is difficult to determine how that would not go through - would not benefit the Taliban as it relates to these funds. Third, the Taliban remain sanctioned by the United States as a specially designated global terrorist group, and a number of its officials are subject to the UN - UNSCR's 1988 sanctions regime. This raises immediate red flags for many states' central banks and the financial community more generally when considering any transactions.”

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White House spokeswoman
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“We are thinking of an organisation between several European countries … a common location for several Europeans, which would allow our ambassadors to be present. This is a different demarche than a political recognition or political dialogue with the Taliban … we will have a representation as soon as we can open.”

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President of France
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“I have had conversations with them [Taliban] on a lot of issues--the return of women to back to work. The schools, the flag of the country, the national flag of the country. And the need for a political process, for a government that belongs to all Afghans, that all Afghans see as theirs--that is inclusive. We really ... want them to go back to school - the girls - not only to schools but to universities, but to the workplace. Yes, we have had talks about this with the Taliban. They hear me on this. They understand it and they say that it will happen. We say that it should happen now, immediately.”

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Former President of Afghanistan
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“It's been becoming more and more clear to the Taliban over the last three and a half months that women's rights, particularly girls education, is a really serious barrier to achieving some things that they want from the international community - recognition, legitimacy, funding, unfreezing of assets.”

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Associate director of women's rights at Human Rights Watch
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“The Taliban leadership's promised amnesty has not stopped local commanders from summarily executing or disappearing former Afghan security force members. The burden is on the Taliban to prevent further killings, hold those responsible to account, and compensate the victims' families.”

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Associate Asia director at Human Rights Watch
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“Today, on Poland's Eastern border, we are dealing with a new type of war, a war in which migrants are weapons, in which disinformation is a weapon, a hybrid war. [I received] information that the difficult situation in Afghanistan after the Taliban took over the country in August may by used as the next stage of the migration crisis. I think that the things that unfold before our eyes, these dramatic events, may only be a prelude to something much worse.”

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Prime Minister of Poland
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“Muttaqi's [Amir Khan Muttaqi] visit to Pakistan is likely to be transactional with discussions on practical issues of mutual concern, including Afghan Taliban's role as mediator between the Pakistani government and the Pakistani Taliban.”

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Director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies in Lanzhou University
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“Our message to America is, if unrecognition continues, Afghan problems continue, it is the problem of the region and could turn into a problem for the world. The reason the Taliban and the United States went to war last time was also because the two did not have formal diplomatic ties. Those issues which caused the war, they could have been solved through negotiation, they could have been solved through political compromise too.”

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Taliban spokesman
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“Iran has come to understand that the enemy's enemy is not your friend, and the Taliban are a more complex problem than Americans. The consensus is to deal with the Taliban very carefully and pragmatically.”

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Former Iranian diplomat who advised Afghanistan’s government and worked in the country for the United Nations
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“Our strategy in Afghanistan completely depends on the Taliban's behavior. The Islamic Republic of Iran does not want to meddle in Afghanistan's affairs but naturally we have legitimate interests that must be guaranteed.”

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Head of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations
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“Russia is important to the Taliban as a lobbyist for their political ambitions. We are permanent members of the UN Security Council. And the new government of Afghanistan wants to get a seat at the UN. Moscow can lobby for the removal of the Taliban from the list of terrorist organizations at the UN Security Council, which, in principle, should lead to diplomatic recognition of the new Kabul government.”

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Russian expert on Central and South Asia
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“These decisions were made at the level of the United Nations. Our expectation is that these people, the Taliban, that now clearly control Afghanistan, will see that the situation develops in a positive way. If that happens, we would decide to take them off the list of terrorist organizations.”

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Russian president
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