A U.N. Security Council committee agreed to allow the Afghan interim administration’s foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi to travel to Pakistan from Afghanistan next week to meet with the foreign ministers of Pakistan and China, diplomats said. Muttaqi has long been subjected to a travel ban, asset freeze and arms embargo under Security Council sanctions. According to a letter to the 15-member Security Council Taliban sanctions committee, Pakistan’s U.N. mission requested an exemption for Muttaqi was to travel between May 6-9 “for a meeting with the foreign ministers of Pakistan and China.” Chinese and Pakistani officials have both said in the past that they would welcome Islamic Emirate-led Afghanistan into the multibillion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) infrastructure project, part of the Belt and Road Initiative. The foreign ministry of the Islamic Emirate said that acting minister Amir Khan Muttaqi will lead a political and business delegation to Pakistan at the end of this week. The deputy spokesperson for the foreign ministry, Zia Ahmad Takal, said that Muttaqi will hold talks with some Pakistani officials in Islamabad about political relations, trade, regional stability, and transit. “The Afghan government wants to hold comprehensive discussions on regional stability, bilateral political-commercial ties, and transit … Continue reading UN Says Afghan Interim Govt’s Envoy Can Meet Pakistan, China Ministers