abour asks for detailed information about government processing Afghanistan and Minister of Foreign Affairs While on vacation accept Take over by the Taliban.
Dominique Raab rejected the opposition’s call for him to resign. Earlier reports stated that his department officials suggested that he was “unavailable to contact” when he called the Afghan Foreign Minister Hanif Atmar “urgently” on Friday.
According to the “Daily Mail” report, the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs subsequently refused to arrange a phone call with a junior minister and postponed it to the next day.
Mr. Raab is on holiday in Crete, Greece.
The Labour Party says the leadership of Mr. Raab and the Prime Minister is “unforgivable” Boris Johnson It also made a list of 18 urgent questions for the Minister of Foreign Affairs to answer about his vacation and how his department handled the crisis.
The party asked for specific information about when Mr. Raab went abroad and took a leave of office, if he got advice from officials about leaving as the situation in Afghanistan worsened, if he attended the Cobra meeting on August 15 and if other The minister is authorized to approve intelligence operations that require urgent approval in his absence.
The Labour Party also questioned the Prime Minister’s involvement, asking whether Mr. Raab had spoken to Mr Johnson while he was away, and whether the Prime Minister allowed him to leave the country.
Shadow Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Labor Party Lisa Nandy He said: “In the biggest foreign policy crisis in a generation, the prime minister and foreign secretary’s leave is an unforgivable leadership failure.
“When British troops flew to Afghanistan to save lives, Dominique Raab refused to shorten his summer vacation. The government’s negligence will pay the price of life.”
The Labour Party, the Scottish National Party, the Liberal Democrats and Plaid Cymru called on Mr. Raab to either resign or be fired by Mr. Johnson.
Raab told reporters on Downing Street on Thursday whether he would resign as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs: “No.”
Defense Minister Ben Wallace said earlier that, given that the Afghan government “melts faster than ice,” the phone calls Mr. Raab suggested to his Afghan counterparts would not make “any difference.”
Earlier this week, Mr. Raab insisted that he “participated in Cobra, talked with foreign counterparts, and talked directly with our team leader in London. Request”.
He said that “everyone was caught off guard by the speed and scale of the Taliban takeover” and “in retrospect”, if he knew what would happen in Afghanistan when he left, he would not go on vacation.
Downing Street and the Foreign, Federal and Development Office have been contacted for comments.
