Qatar will handle the interests of USA on Afghanistan Following the closure of the Washington embassy with the arrival of the Taliban to power, the Secretary of State announced on Friday, Antony Blink.
By welcoming its Qatari counterpart in Washington, Blinken announced the signing of an agreement that “establishes Qatar as the protective power of USA on Afghanistan“, so the legation in Kabul of that country of the Persian Gulf it will have a US interests section.
“Let me express how grateful we are for your leadership and support in Afghanistan, but also highlight that our relationship is much broader than that, “he said. flash to the Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al Thani.
Qatar, which has a large US military base, has played a key role in both diplomacy and evacuations since Afghanistan after the decision of USA to end the 20-year war in that country.
About half of the 124,000 Westerners and Afghan allies who left Afghanistan in the final days of the US presence they did so while traveling through Qatar.
And before the Qataris hosted conversations between USA and the Taliban that led to the February 2020 agreement for the withdrawal of US troops.
Since the return to power of the Taliban, the operations of the U.S. Embassy on Acceptance were redirected to Qatar.
The United States closed its embassy in Acceptance, which was one of its largest diplomatic headquarters in the world, in August when it became clear that the Western-backed government was collapsing. Diplomats destroyed sensitive material and lowered the flag.
Despite the terrible period of taliban regime From 1996-2001 and the war years, US officials have been cautiously optimistic about the relationship with the Taliban, claiming that they have largely kept their promise to let people out of the country.
But USA has ruled out any immediate government recognition or reopening of its embassy in Acceptance, ensuring that he expects the Taliban to also fulfill other commitments such as the treatment of women and the ban on Al Qaida to perform operations from Afghanistan.
After the departure of USA at the end of August, the Department of State has contacted all its citizens who remained in Afghanistan and launched the evacuation of 580 of them, said flash.
Qatar has chartered 15 flights to Afghanistan after the Taliban victory and, together with Turkey, has proposed to renovate the airport of Acceptance.
“Leave Afghanistan it would be a big mistake “he estimated Mohamed bin Abdulrahman al Thani. “They have a growing need for help.”
“We think it is important that we talk to the Taliban, because they are the ones in power today, in order to facilitate humanitarian aid,” he added.
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