CANADA WILL SUPPORT G7 SANCTIONS AGAINST THE TALIBAN, TRUDEAU SAYS

Mon 23 August 2021:

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canada will join the push to put sanctions on the Taliban, during a G7 summit on Tuesday,

The United Kingdom will be pushing other G7 members to impose additional sanctions on the Taliban, which seized control of Afghanistan last Sunday when the group of advanced economies meets to discuss the crisis in the war-torn country.

“Absolutely,” Trudeau replied to reporters, when asked if he would support the British initiative to impose sanctions on the Taliban.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who currently leads the G7 group that also includes the U.S., Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan, called on Sunday for the virtual meeting to respond to the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan.

The Prime Minister Trudeau added that G7 leaders will “certainly” discuss what more these countries can and “must” do to combat the Taliban renaissance, noting that the Islamist religious-political movement is a designated terrorist entity in Canada.

Trudeau cited the Taliban’s status in Canada as reason not to delay sanctions talks against the terror group, despite Ottawa and other countries’ difficulties in repatriating their citizens and vetted Afghan nationals with the Islamist group controlling the roads to Hamid Karzai International Airport, which remains one of the few options out of the country.

US President Joe Biden also answered in the affirmative when asked on Sunday if he would consider sanctions against the Taliban.

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