ZAINUL Abideen Abid, Afghanistan’s Deputy Head of the National Environmental Protection Agency, said that the United States is to blame for the damage done to his country’s climate and vegetation.
At a press conference in Kabul, the official said that Afghanistan ranks sixth among countries that are most vulnerable to climate impacts as the United States and its allies had used weapons and ammunition in their country during the past decades of the conflict.
“Over the past decades, different military weapons were dropped on Afghan soil. Chemicals remain in the air of Afghanistan, contributing to our climate change, damaging our skin, causing deaths or injuries of our fellow citizens, and destroying buildings,” Zainul Abideen Abid, Deputy Head of, the National Environmental Protection Agency said.
He said the U.S. and its like-minded Western countries claim to be human rights defenders, but they have ignored their responsibility to Afghanistan.
The official also stressed that not only did the U.S. fail to compensate his country, but instead, it slapped sanctions, further hindering the reconstruction work in the country.
“The United States and its allies now claim to be human rights defenders. But they have imposed sanctions on all over Afghanistan including the national environmental protection agency,” Zainul Abideen Abid, Deputy Head of, National Environmental Protection Agency said.
