China urges unfreezing of Afghanistan's overseas assets

China reiterated its call for concerned states to unfreeze and return Afghanistan's overseas assets to aid the country's economic recovery and improve people's lives, a stance that analysts have praised.

On Friday, the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2763, extending for 14 months the mandate of the team monitoring sanctions against the Taliban and associated individuals or entities that "threaten Afghanistan's peace, stability and security".

China welcomed the resolution's adoption. Geng Shuang, China's deputy permanent representative to the UN, said, "We support the monitoring team in strengthening its engagement with the Afghan interim government and look forward to an early visit by the team to Afghanistan."