Tom Tugendhat, Chairman of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs CommitteeBefore he appeared in front of members of Congress to face the barbecue of Britain’s preparation and response to the crisis, he turned the spotlight on Mr. Raab.
He emphasized that the Taliban had “defeated” the Soviet Union and the Americans now, so they were no longer as afraid of threats from abroad as before.
“So we need to build alliances in the region and make sure we do have a relationship,” he told ITV’s Good Morning Britain.
“I am very impressed by Charles Michel, the German Foreign Minister or the President of the European Commission, who has traveled to Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan in the past few weeks and established these relations, and he has been communicating with neighboring countries since April. Afghanistan, Be prepared for any possible evacuation.
“I look forward to hearing what our own foreign minister has done in the past four months.”
When asked about his confidence in the Minister of Foreign Affairs to help hundreds of British people still trapped in Afghanistan and obtain foreign aid, Mr. Tugendhat added: “This is why we are holding a hearing this afternoon. one.
“Sadly, considering the scale of the crisis, the Minister of Foreign Affairs only gave us an hour, which I don’t think is particularly long.
“But this is exactly what we need to understand.”
Tobias Elwood, chairman of the Conservative Party of the Defense Committee of the House of Commons, also put pressure on Mr. Raab.
“There are some major problems with the quality of our country governance strategy,” he told Talk Radio.
“The weakness of our special relationship actually persuades Americans to think differently…and the quality of our back-office channels and the strategic insight that we have to provide solutions, which is usually something we are very proud of.”
However, Mr. Raab came out on Tuesday after a few days of briefings against Boris Johnson that he will face the axe in the next reorganization.
He lashed out at the “briefing of shirking responsibility” It also insisted that in the large-scale evacuation of about 14,000 people from Kabul in recent weeks, no Whitehall department performed better than the Foreign Affairs, Federal and Development Offices.
Mr. Raab also said that the failure of military intelligence meant that the West was caught off guard by the Taliban’s seizure of power in Afghanistan.
In addition, he attributed the blame to the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Defense, at least partly to the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Defense. Earlier reports stated that thousands of e-mails from people desperate to leave Afghanistan were not read.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs admitted that he should have returned from a holiday in Crete earlier, but denied allegations that he did not receive regular calls from Afghan and Pakistani ministers during the crisis, reportedly because he believed that Afghanistan was “yesterday’s war.”
However, Lisa Nandi, the shadow minister of foreign affairs, told Time Radio: “During this crisis, the minister of foreign affairs has been acting and he is not prepared. Therefore, we are in the weakest state in my memory. A country that relies on the Taliban. Permit our own citizens to leave Afghanistan and rely on China and Russia to agree on a joint approach for the Taliban to move forward.
Sir Ed David, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, added: “Dominique Raab should resign three times now: because he stayed on the beach and because his department failed to deal with thousands of cases of Afghans who tried to leave the country. , And in fact, thousands of Afghans may have helped our soldiers, but they are now stranded.”
Many congressmen specifically blamed the crisis in Afghanistan on US President Joe Biden because he completed the withdrawal agreement between Donald Trump and the Taliban.
