The U.S. State Department is telling American companies to tread carefully when doing business in Afghanistan, because many supposedly “private” entities are actually connected to the Taliban, which is under sanctions as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist Group (SDGT).
\n\nAccording to Radio Free Europe (RFE), the warning was issued on Saturday because former U.S. envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad paid a visit to Kabul on September 7 to witness the signing of an oil and gas deal with Saudi Arabia.
\n\nThe $200 million deal covered a 25-year contract between Saudi Arabia’s Delta International Energy and the Taliban junta. For the first eight years of the contract, Delta International Energy would have the rights to explore for oil and gas in Afghanistan’s western provinces of Herat and Badghis. After the Taliban’s mining and oil minister, Hedyatullah Badri.that, the company would begin helping the regime to extract oil and gas from the area.
\n\nThe Taliban’s mining and oil minister, Hedyatullah Badri, said:
\n\nWe are working to create opportunities for investment in the assessment, exploration, prospecting and professional extraction of the country’s natural resources, and to make effective use of Afghanistan’s natural resources to promote economic growth, improve people’s welfare and create employment…
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