Overview
- The Afghan foreign ministry announced on X that the Bonn mission has resumed services with a representative it sent.
- The German Foreign Office says the Bonn consul post is currently unfilled and that Afghan missions are led by pre-2021 appointees.
- The Bonn consulate previously functioned as a central IT node for Afghan missions across Europe, Canada and Australia, raising fears of Taliban access to personal records.
- Former consul Hamid Nangialay Kabiri and the entire staff resigned in protest over the takeover, and Kabiri has applied for asylum in Germany.
- Germany maintains non-recognition of the Taliban but allowed entry to two Taliban diplomats for consular roles, prompting Green Party calls for full disclosure of any arrangements.