Letter to the IMF

Kristalina Georgieva
Managing Director
International Monetary Fund Washington DC
Oct. 13, 2021

Dear Dr. Georgieva,

We are a non-political group of professionals, regional experts, civil society activists and Afghan Americans.

Many of us have followed that country’s history over the past years and decades; all of us are committed to doing what we can to lessen the suffering of Afghanistan’s civilian population and especially that of its most vulnerable members, women and children.

We have come together under the title “Unfreeze Afghanistan,” by which we mean that resources must be allowed to flow into the country for humanitarian needs, food provision, and salaries for teachers, health workers and public sector employees.

We cordially request a meeting with you or relevant officials you designate, to discuss ways in which this urgent situation can best be addressed, and to find mechanisms that can work in this extraordinary situation.

We are aware of the various security, diplomatic and other concerns guiding the debate around policies towards the Taliban government. We have seen the letter sent by a group of U.S. Congressional members demanding that the IMF freeze the SDR process for Afghanistan, and we will be contacting them to discuss the unintended consequences of their political stance, namely, a looming humanitarian disaster.

We are solely focused on trying to shield Afghan civilians from the fallout of the political disputes that have ruined their lives for the past four
decades. For us, Afghanistan is its people, not its politics.

Attached for your kind attention you will find a statement by one of the groups inside
Afghanistan that we have been working with, the Teachers’ Union. We also attach our petition
which has garnered over 3,500 signatures in less than a week.

Cordially,
The Campaign to Unfreeze Afghanistan
Email: office@unfreezeafghanistan.org