US President Joe Biden announced that he asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken to "continue to lead coordination with our international partners to ensure the safe passage of all Americans, Afghan partners, foreigners who want to leave Afghanistan. ". The president recalled the resolution approved by the UN security council, which "sends a clear message about what the international community expects the Taliban to do going forward, in particular the freedom to travel".
"The Taliban are committed to safe passage and the world will ask for their commitments", he added.
Among the efforts indicated by Biden, the ongoing diplomatic action in Afghanistan and the coordination with partners in the region "to reopen the airport allowing the continuation of departure for those who wish to leave and for the delivery of humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people" .
"A new chapter in our engagement with Afghanistan
has
begun,"
said Secretary of State Antony Blinken in his first briefing after the US withdrawal from Kabul.
The US remains committed, even after the withdrawal, to helping all Americans who want to leave Afghanistan.
The Taliban's most prominent spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, congratulated the Afghans on their victory, hours after the last US troops left the country after 20 years of military intervention. "Congratulations to Afghanistan - he said from the runway of Kabul airport - this victory belongs to all of us. We want to have good relations with the United States and the world. We welcome good diplomatic relations with everyone". The defeat of the United States was a "great lesson for the other invaders and for our future generation". "It is also a lesson for the world," added the spokesman from the runway of the Kabul airport.
The withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan has shown that the "policy of unbridled military intervention and the imposition of its values and social systems in other countries is unattainable and is doomed to failure".
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin, commenting in the daily briefing on the departure of the last American troops from Kabul, noted that Afghanistan "was able to get rid of foreign military occupation and ushered in a new starting point. for peace and national reconstruction. The history of Afghanistan has opened a new page ".
And in the evening the reassurance of gen.
Kenneth McKenzie, head of the US central command:
there is not a single American soldier left in Afghanistan, all have left the country.
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