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This page provides guidance on the UK’s sanctions regime relating to Afghanistan
Ambassador Barbara Woodward gave a statement at the United Nations Security Council briefing on Afghanistan.
This paper introduces a networks of access approach to understand political and economic life in Afghanistan
Australia issued a joint statement with a number of foreign ministers worldwide on the Taliban's increasing restrictions on women and girls in Afghanistan.
Local councils have been urged to step up efforts to provide permanent homes for the remaining Afghans who fled the Taliban and are currently living in temporary hotel accommodation, at a cost of around £1 million per day to taxpayers.
Find out about UK forces in Afghanistan
The foreign ministers gave a joint statement condemning the Taliban’s recent decision to ban women from universities in Afghanistan.
UK forces were deployed to Afghanistan in support of the UN-authorised, NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) mission and as part of the US-led Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF). Between 2003 and the end of 2014 UK operations in Afghanistan...
Afghanistan is currently subject to UK financial sanctions. This document contains a current list of designated persons.
On behalf of the UK government Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon condemned the Taliban's recent decision to ban women from going to university across Afghanistan.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Statement by Ambassador James Kariuki at the Security Council briefing on Afghanistan
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Ambassador Barbara Woodward speaks at the UN Security Council briefing on Afghanistan
Statement by Deputy Political Coordinator Tom Phipps at the UN Security Council meeting on Afghanistan.
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