DW: Afghanistan Expels High-Level UN, EU Diplomats
Afghanistan Expels High-Level UN, EU Diplomats
Two high-level United Nations and European Union diplomats face expulsion from Afghanistan for allegedly holding talks with the radical Islamist Taliban. The organizations are working to clear up the "misunderstanding." A government official said that acting European Union mission head Michael Semple and senior UN official Mervyn Patterson had held an illegal meeting with members of the Taliban and must leave by Thursday, Dec. 27.Semple, an Irishman, and Patterson, a Briton, were charged with having talks with the Taliban in the southern province of Helmand without the knowledge of the government in Kabul, which accused them of endangering the security and sovereignty of Afghanistan.
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