IOC announces ‘public assistance’ for athletes in Afghanistan | Athletics News
The International Olympic Committee has announced $ 560,000 in winter aid for the remaining athletes in the country.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC), after arranging for the evacuation of about 300 members of the Afghan sports team, has announced a $ 560,000 grant for winter relief.
“As a result of our prudent discussions, the Taliban have endorsed and supported the IOC’s commitment to Olympic members still living in Afghanistan,” IOC President Thomas Bach said on Wednesday.
He was speaking after the second day of a summit of officials that the IOC had set aside $ 560,000 to support nearly 2,000 Olympic and Paralympic athletes to be distributed by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
Following the return of power to the Taliban in mid-August, 300 Afghan athletes, coaches and officials were transferred to humanitarian visas received by National Olympic Committees from their respective governments.
“This is a work in progress,” Bach said.
“It has been more difficult to get a visa to help people from Afghanistan than at the beginning of this migration. However, we are in talks with several governments and we hope that one or the other will be achieved.
“Because of the shortfall, we have strengthened the humanitarian team to overcome the coldest weather in Afghanistan.”
On Tuesday, Bach said the IOC began talks with the Taliban on November 18 in Qatar about the remaining, especially women and girls.
“We have made it very clear that access to the sport, regardless of gender, race, religion or any other discrimination, is essential to respecting the Olympic Charter,” he said.
Afghan aid gives the IOC an opportunity to protect “silent talks”, a statement recently made to justify its intervention in the case of Chinese footballer Peng Shuai, who did not appear for nearly three weeks after a former Communist trial. Raped party politician.
Bach spoke to Peng for 30 minutes on November 21, one of the first words the Western organization had with him. The second video was followed in early December, which reduced his health concerns but not his rights.
Accused of Beijing’s propaganda campaign, the IOC has defended its “humanitarian” approach, seeing it as “very helpful” in taking action to ensure the player’s “safety and security”, not to mention what he said.
