G7 Leaders / G7 leaders agreed Taliban must allow people to leave after August 31

Zoom News : Aug 24, 2021, 10:36 PM

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson stated that the G7 had agreed to a plan to address the Taliban on Tuesday. Their primary circumstance was that militants have to permit secure passage to Afghans looking to depart the united states even after an Aug. 31 deadline.


“What we have got completed today, the G7, is we've... agreed not only a joint technique to handling the evacuation, however additionally a roadmap for the manner wherein we are going to have interaction with the Taliban,” Mr Johnson stated after an emergency digital assembly of the leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy nations.


“The primary circumstance we are putting as G7 is that they have got were given to assure proper the manner via, through August 31 and beyond, secure passage for people who need to come out.


“Some of them will say that they do not accept that, a number of them I desire will see the sense of that because the G7 has very widespread leverage, economic, diplomatic and political.”


Mr Johnson stated the “large leverage” which the G7 ought to wield over the Taliban after it seized control of the country simply over a week in the past covered withholding huge funds.


“What we are pronouncing is Afghanistan can not lurch back into becoming a breeding ground of terror, Afghanistan can not become a narco-state, women have got to be educated as much as the age of 18,” he stated.


Mr Johnson sidestepped a query approximately whether or not different G7 leaders had expressed frustration at U.S. President Joe Biden over his coping with the disaster and refusal to increase the deadline for U.S. troops closing in Afghanistan.


“Let's be clear the instant segment of the evacuation is actually ... a completely widespread achievement through the military,” he stated. “We're assured we will get thousands more out. But the state of affairs at the airport isn't getting any better. It's harrowing scenes for people who are trying to get out.”

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