DThe United States is concerned about individual members of the radical Islamic Taliban transitional government in Afghanistan. A spokesman for the US State Department said on Tuesday that the Washington government expressed concern in view of the “connections and history” of some people nominated by the Taliban in high-level positions in the new Afghan government.
The statement said: “We also reiterate our clear expectation that the Taliban will ensure that the land of Afghanistan will not be used to threaten other countries and continue to provide support to the Afghan people.”
Heiko Maas meets Anthony Brinken
Mullah Hassan Akhund was born on Tuesday Appointed head of governmentAhund was one of the founders of the Taliban during the first rule of the Taliban from 1996 to 2001 and a close partner of the head of state Mullah Omar. The position of current Minister of the Interior was awarded to Sirajadine Haqqani.Haqqani’s network of the same name is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States and is one of the most wanted criminals by the US investigative agency FBI.
The foreign ministers of the United States and Germany Antony Blinken and Heiko Mars, Is discussing the situation in Afghanistan today at the U.S. Air Force Base Ramstein in Rhineland-Palatinate. First of all, they want to talk to each other in pairs, and then the foreign ministers of several other countries who are also dealing with the crisis in the Central Asian countries will be connected by video.
The United States and Germany are the two largest contributors to the international military operation in Afghanistan, which ended with the evacuation of the last group of American soldiers last week. Now, the two countries continue to try to get people who feel threatened by the Taliban to leave the country. The militant Islamists are now in power throughout the country.
The United States uses Ramstein as one of several hubs for its evacuation mission. According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior, as of Monday morning, a total of 34,103 Afghans had arrived there. Of these evacuees, 20,943 had flown to the United States at this time. Ninety people have applied for asylum in Germany.
Brinken visited Qatar, the golf emirate before Germany. Tens of thousands of Afghans were airlifted out of Arab countries. Qatar is also one of the countries with the closest relationship with the Taliban, and the Taliban also has a political office there. This is a kind of foreign ministry with which Germany is also holding talks.
