The UK will provide “full support” to the US if Joe Biden After Afghanistan withdraws troops, choose to extend the deadline for withdrawal from Afghanistan acceptance deterioration.
Secretary of defense Ben Wallace In what might be interpreted as a request to Washington, he said that “no country can let everyone leave” Taliban-controlled countries. The US president’s target date is August 31, which makes the rescue mission more time pressure.
The cabinet minister said in an article for The Post on Sunday: “If the US timetable does not change, we will not have time for most people to wait.
“Maybe Americans will be allowed to stay longer. If they do, they will have our full support.”
Relations between the United Kingdom and the United States are in a state of tension. Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who was in Downing Street when Britain sent troops into Afghanistan after 9/11 20 years ago, accused Mr. Biden of deciding to withdraw from the central government. Asian countries with “little or no consultation” called the move “stupid.”
According to the “Sunday Times”, the Minister of Foreign Affairs Dominic Rab ——He decided to continue his vacation and once again became the focus of attention Taliban Progress in Kabul-is seeking to talk to his opponent, US Secretary of State Anthony Brinken, to discuss extending the deadline at the end of the month.
As the situation around the Kabul airport got worse, the Independent reported that on Saturday, four Afghan women were crushed to death while trying to enter the airport where the military repatriation flight left.
Mr. Wallace confirmed that “too many people at the airport” on Saturday forced the United States to suspend entry.
However, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence emphasized that British flights and processing are not affected by the suspension.
There are further worrying reports that the treatment of Britons and Afghans who support Britain’s efforts to flee the country is worrying.
Lisa Nandy, the shadow secretary of foreign affairs, shared a letter on social media saying that she had sent a letter to Mr. Raab about the “crisis” faced by the evacuees because she was helping the local People seek more assistance.
Senior opposition party people said that Labour MPs have been hearing about people being “shot, beaten and raped” while waiting to be called at the airport, and many British nationals were told to go to the Baron Hotel in the city. Being blocked by the Taliban.
Ms. Nandi asked whether NATO allies could implement “military police operations” at the gate of Hamid Karzai International Airport or the internal processing zone to protect those waiting.
At the same time, the US Embassy in Afghanistan advised American citizens to avoid going to Kabul Airport “because of the potential security threat outside the gate” related to the so-called Islamic State.
Sir Laurie Bristol, the British ambassador to Afghanistan who has stayed in the capital to help with the application, said that the rescue work “is undoubtedly the biggest international challenge I have faced as a diplomat.”
The Ministry of Defense confirmed that Operation Pitting was supported by 1,000 British troops — including Pallas from the 16th Air Assault Brigade — and nearly 4,000 have been repatriated from Afghanistan since August 13.
In his article, the Secretary of Defense seems to suggest that once the army leaves the country, any Afghans left behind should go to the border, where a “processing center across areas outside Afghanistan” will be established, for those British “obliged to bring this nation”.
At home, the foreign secretary faced further revelations that he had decided to stay on holiday in Crete while the Taliban hovered in Kabul and claimed that he remained abroad despite being told to return to the UK.
The Sunday Times reported that Mr. Raab was ordered to go home by Downing Street on August 13, but stayed in his five-star hotel on the Greek island for two more days because Boris Johnson told him that he could.
The newspaper quoted a senior government official as saying that when the cabinet minister did not attend the meeting in person on Sunday, the 10th had an “incredible feeling” and added: “After Boris was told to return, he seemed to Made a high profile of Boris…”
After Kabul fell into the hands of militants, the foreign secretary returned to Britain on Monday.
After Mr. Raab found himself in the line of fire due to dealing with the evolving situation, he had already had to support Mr. Raab once.
It is reported that when he left on August 13th, he entrusted the phone call regarding the repatriation of Afghan interpreters to a junior minister-a decision that prevented the phone conversation with the Afghan Foreign Minister and may delay bringing them there. Safe location.
In response to the latest holiday allegations, Ms. Nandi of the Labor Party said: “It is shocking that the Foreign Secretary has time to pick up the phone to lobby the Prime Minister to extend his own holiday, but refused to give Afghanistan a few hours before Kabul. The government called. It fell into the hands of the Taliban.”
