M.Mobarez
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Dear @AliNazary, your words honour the shared struggle for freedom, democracy and human dignity in Afghanistan. The courage of the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan and of every Afghan woman, man and girl who refuses to bow to the Taliban's gender apartheid is a moral compass for all of us who believe that universal rights are non-negotiable. I want to take this occasion to renew my deepest gratitude for your invaluable participation in the first European Conference of Ventotene for Freedom and Democracy last year. Your testimony gave our community a profound understanding of what is truly at stake in Afghanistan, and reminded Europe that the defence of democracy is indivisible, from Kabul to Kyiv, from Tehran to Minsk. It is precisely this awareness that makes the current course unacceptable: the 20 Member States pushing the @EU_Commission towards "technical dialogues" with the Taliban must not become complicit in repression. By doing so, they are forgetting the very foundations of international law, the @CJEU jurisprudence, and the principles enshrined in our Treaties. There is no "pragmatic engagement" that can disguise the legitimisation of a regime committing crimes against humanity against women and girls, nor that can justify forcibly returning Afghan asylum seekers to the hands of their persecutors, in open breach of the principle of non-refoulement. The EU must instead deploy every instrument at its disposal - sanctions, accountability mechanisms, humanitarian corridors, structured support to the democratic opposition in exile - to counter these aberrations, not to normalise them. In this same spirit, I am honoured to invite you and @AhmadMassoud to the second edition of the European Conference of Ventotene for Freedom and Democracy unioneeuropea.it/torna-la-confe…. Your voice is essential: the Afghan resistance belongs to that constellation of democratic forces that Ventotene was conceived to bring together, amplify and protect. We stand united: with Afghan women, with those seeking refuge from persecution, with the democratic opposition, with @AhmadMassoud and the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan. Europe must act: silence is not neutrality. #AfghanWomen #WomensRights #Ventotene @Zahrakazimi3


