Is There a Way to Circumvent Safeguards in the Afghan Government?

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negotiations are ongoing as to what type of additional safeguards can be set in place forexamp. The bydn administration is now saying, we want a third party contractor,. defined by the united states, to be a sort of a, you know, a watch dog over the movements of the money in the central bank. And like i said, it's basically a global standard.

The US froze billions in Afghanistan’s central bank reserves when the Taliban took control. Now it’s wrestling with how to trust the Taliban with the Afghan people’s money.

This episode was produced by Victoria Chamberlin with help from Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Victoria Dominguez and Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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