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That arrived. we all hoped that they will agree to the new afghanistan. they will agree to deliver what the current young generation and the generation of those who had been educated in the last 20 years wish and desire to see the future of their country. and keep in mind, my husband s father was assassinated by taliban, but he still went ahead and he sat across a table to speak with them and, for me, even with that hardship, there was a time i arrived to the understanding we need to end this war. we need to speak with each other. we need to find a solution to long term sustainability and prosperity. but we had certain conditions to put forward. and foremost, the most important one was education for girls, access for women to go to work, and also protection of minorities and human rights protection, and embracing today s afghanistan. and, unfortunately, what we see, they did not. they are not able to deliver what they have been saying in doha. there was still doubt, a big doubt, even t ....
Ambassador adela raz in washington, dc, welcome to hardtalk. how weird is it being the representative in washington of a government which no longer exists? erm, it s quite difficult. it is challenging, but not powerless. i think this is. this is where i wanted to come and somehow correct you, stephen, because i think, in defence of my colleagues, other afghan diplomats and ambassadors who are across the world without authority, i would say yes, for sure, but without power, i think that s a little difficult because our power comes from the people of afghanistan and as long as we are representing the tricolour flag, which is behind me, i think that s our power ....
Which the only hope to the outside world is your education, because this is the key to your success. this is the key to your future. this is your key to brightness. and suddenly, one morning you wake up, it s taken from you. and that s hard. and i remember as a young girl, i would wake up at midnight and do prayers because i just wanted to wake up to a miracle that reality has changed for me and it didn t change. it took five years and five years i stayed at home and then later on, my father passed away and my mum was a widow and i really, really hear the voice of those widows right now in afghanistan as the breadwinners because my mum was one of them and she wasn t allowed to work, i wasn t allowed to work. so we have to find ways on how to survive and how to serve our own family. and i had three young brothers and for my mum, ....
I think it wasn t only me, a large number of us. we had this decision, we will not participate in the meeting because we knew we knew that we cannot represent them. but whenever they get the recognition and they send an ambassador, i think there is no denial the post is theirs. you mean, you will get out of the embassy when the taliban representative arrives, is that what you re saying? sure. for sure. if their representative arrives and the host country recognises them, then that s the legitimate right of afghanistan. and, as i said, i m representing the interests of people of afghanistan as far as i can and when it arrives with another official recognition, it s their place and then i would not be able to represent their interests. that s my personal choice ....
Term that s not defined to the current cabinet and appointments they have made. but they have a chance. they have a window of opportunity if they would like to pursue a recognition in the long run, international recognition. if they would like to pursue the desire and the wishes of the people of afghanistan, they have to represent the reality and the reality in afghanistan is much different than it was 25 years ago when they came to power, because today it s a new afghanistan. it s a new generation. women make the strongest voice. the younger generation, the educated one, those who have been educated abroad, they make the strongest voice. we have a very vibrant civil society. we have a very dominant and strong media, and we re already seeing the signs, the space for them to work is limited. women are not allowed to go to work, girls are not allowed to be educated. so if they continue ....