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Biden: Chaos after Withdrawal Was Inevitable

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  • Source: Agencies
  • 19 Aug 2021 09:57
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US President Joe Biden confirms difficulty evacuating Afghans who collaborated with US.

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  • Biden: Chaos After Withdrawal was Inevitable
    A US Marine escorts an employee for evacuation in Kabul August 15

During a press conference US Deputy of State Wendy Sherman has revealed that the UN Security Council passed a resolution "calling on the Taliban to ensure justice and equal rights and inclusion, for there to be no violence, for people to be able to leave when they can."

The US State Department confirmed consensus with both China and Russia on the Afghanistan situation. 

US President Joe Biden defended his stance to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan, emphasizing that chaos in the region after withdrawal was inevitable.

Biden insisted in an interview with the ABC network that the US troops would stay in the nation until all Americans had been evacuated, even if that meant extending the deadline after August 31.

EXCLUSIVE: Pres. Biden tells @GStephanopoulos that U.S. troops will stay until all Americans are out of Afghanistan, even if past Aug 31 deadline. https://t.co/iEDJSzuSLI pic.twitter.com/JHTAWCWAPO

— ABC News (@ABC) August 19, 2021

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Wednesday, US Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, stated that “our mission is to secure that airfield, defend that airfield, and evacuate all those who have been faithful to us,” stressing that the US is “going to evacuate everybody that we can physically and possibly evacuate and we’ll conduct this process for as long as we possibly can.”

US Chief of Staff, Mark Milley, disclosed that when Joe Biden decided to evacuate forces from Afghanistan, among the considered possibilities was an outbreak of civil war and a rapid fall of Kabul. 

Milley detailed the presence of an integrated plan to face the possibilities of US troop withdrawal and how the US' mission is to defend the embassy of the United States in Kabul and ensuring safe.

Earlier, the US embassy in Kabul announced that the US government cannot ensure safe passage to the Hamid Karzai International Airport.

US National Security Adviser, Jake Sullivan, confirmed that the US is communicating with the Taliban to evacuate Americans and Afghan collaborators from Kabul.

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