Blinken: Taliban have renewed pledge to let Afghans ‘freely depart’
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US President Joe Biden has faced mounting pressure amid reports that several hundred people, including Americans, had been prevented for a week from flying out of an airport in northern Afghanistan.
The Taliban told the United States that “they will let people with travel documents freely depart,” Blinken told a news conference in Doha where he and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin met their Qatari opposite numbers.
“We will hold them to that,” he said.
Qatar said that Kabul airport, largely closed since the conclusion of Washington’s chaotic withdrawal from the country at the end of August, would reopen soon, potentially opening an important corridor for Afghans seeking to leave.
“The entire international community is looking to the Taliban to uphold that commitment,” Blinken said, referring to a UN Security Council resolution that urged safe passage. READ MORE
Blinken: Taliban have renewed pledge to let Afghans ‘freely depart’
Blinken: Taliban have renewed pledge to let Afghans ‘freely depart’
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