KABUL - European Union (EU) Ambassador to Afghanistan Franz-Michael Mellbin on Wednesday told TOLOnews the collapse of Kunduz came as a "big surprise" to the international community and is a technical setback for the Afghan government.

He said he believes that inefficiency in the political system led to the fall of the city.

According to Mellbin, the Kunduz crisis is the result of an incompetent political system and not the inability of the security forces.

"It was a big surprise to the international community and a technical setback to the Afghan government and it is very important that lessons are learned from Kunduz so that in future we don't have a repeat of the situation," Mellbin said.

"We are waiting for independent reports to emerge from Kunduz and I am confident that it will happen. We have also encouraged from our side the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission look into what happened in Kunduz ... What is very important is that we get a good understanding of what happened. For now we have very worrying reports. I remain deeply concerned,"Mellbin added.

He said: "Political consequences are also drawn and I believe what we saw there was not just a strong enemy opposing or surprising weak government forces, it was also a political system which did not act in time to shrink this base for the insurgents."

In addition, French Ambassador to Kabul Jean-Michel Marlaud has called for clarification of the fall of Kunduz but believes the Taliban will not succeed in winning the war.

"We regret that (fall of Kunduz) and I think that it is necessary to rethink reasons why such an episode was possible and we know that the NUG is reflecting and will draw a lesson from this. But I do not think it changes things fundamentally. I am convinced that the Taliban has no possibility to take power in Afghanistan. They have no possibility because they do not have the support of the majority of the population and they will never succeed because the international community will never accept it," Marlaud told TOLOnews.