The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) announced that the UN Security Council meeting on Afghanistan will be held on Wednesday.

Roza Otunbayeva, UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy, will address the meeting on the situation in Afghanistan.

On X social media platform, UNAMA wrote that the meeting is scheduled to be held on Wednesday evening at 19:30 Kabul time.

The organisation has not provided further details about the meeting.

Recently, the UN held a closed-door meeting with Afghan women activists, which sparked reactions.

In recent days, the UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres presented his quarterly report on Afghanistan to the Security Council.

The meeting of the UN Security Council is being held while UNAMA recently published a report titled "Handling Complaints of Gender-Based Violence Against Women and Girls", expressing concerns about the increase in violence against women following the Taliban’s takeover of power.