Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting foreign minister of the Taliban regime met with Wang Yu, Chinese Ambassador to Afghanistan in Kabul on Tuesday. This comes a day after Muttaqi held a meeting with a delegation led by Filippo Grandi, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

A spokesperson for the Taliban’s political office in Qatar, Mohammad Naeem, said the meeting between Muttaqi and Wang Yu focused on the Taliban’s interim cabinet, bilateral relations between the two countries and the continuation of economic and political cooperation.

Only recently, China announced $31 million in emergency aid to Afghanistan for coronavirus vaccines and food supplies.

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Taliban’s acting foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, in a statement, said China and Afghanistan are neighbours and the development of bilateral relations is in the interest of both countries.

Muttaqi with Chinese delegation led by Wang Yu in Kabul on Tuesday | India Today

This key meeting comes less than 24 hours after Muttaqi discussed humanitarian assistance with Filippo Grandi, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.

The two also reportedly talked about Afghan refugees abroad and those internally displaced following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

According to reports, Muttaqi told Grandi that the Taliban regime wants Afghan refugees to return to their country and is ready to extend cooperation in this regard.

Amir Khan Muttaqi with Filippo Grandi in Kabul on Monday | India Today

Amir Khan Muttaqi added that it is the Taliban regime’s priority to ensure that the “displaced families in the country can return to their areas before the onset of winter”.

He also said that the international community should “create an environment in which no more Afghans can flee Afghanistan”.

More than 2,40,000 Afghans have been internally displaced since the beginning of US withdrawal in May of this year, reported The Washington Post. The report adds that Afghanistan already had 3.5 million internally displaced people even before the Taliban took over the country on August 15 of this year.