(MENAFN- Qatar News Agency) At least 14 people including the IMF representative in Afghanistan and three UN staff were killed in a terrifying gun and bomb attack on a Kabul restaurant popular with foreigners. A UN statement said other dead from the attack claimed by the Taliban were from international organizations.
Deploring the attack, which killed both Afghans and foreigners, in the "strongest terms," the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said it is seeking to verify the status of all UN personnel and reiterated its condemnation of attacks that deliberately target civilians as gross violations of international humanitarian law. "This violence is unacceptable and must stop immediately", Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Special Representative and UNAMA head Jan Kubis said in a statement. "I strongly condemn the targeting of civilians in any form, and, in particular, the continued use of suicide bombers".
The Mission extended its condolences to the families of those killed its wishes for a speedy recovery to all those injured. In his latest quarterly report on the UNAMA to the Security Council last month Kubis said Afghanistan continues to make progress in enhancing its stability ahead of the withdrawal by the end of this year of the international forces that have sought to bring security there for the past 12 years. But he warned that international support will be required through at least another decade for the ambitious security, political and economic transformations envisaged for a country that has known little peace or stability for over the past 35 years
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