WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken confirmed on Wednesday that he had ordered a series of internal reviews of the planning and implementation of the State Department of US Afghanistan evacuations and relocation efforts, operations that were widely criticized as chaos.
Afghan work for two decades of the United States peaked in a hasty airlift in August where more than 124,000 civilians including Americans, Afghanistan and others were evacuated when the Taliban took over.
But thousands of other Afghans allied with the risk of malicious Taliban persecution.
In a speech launched new steps to modernize the Department of Foreign Affairs, Blinken praised the evacuation operations but also said that institutions need to learn from this experience and do better if a similar scenario presents itself in the future.
“There are many things now, looking back, we can and have to ask,” Can we do something differently? ‘”Can we take that step differently?” “Should we try the idea first?” “Can we get the decision faster?”, “Blinken said in a speech at the Foreign Service Institute in Arlington, Virginia, was attended by members of parliament, diplomats and others.
Reuters and other media outlets were reported last week that Inspector General of the Ministry of Exterior The country will review Biden administrative diplomatic operations in Afghanistan, including the emergency evacuation of the US Embassy in Kabul.
Inspector Acting Department General will also see a special immigrant visa program, Afghan processing to enter as refugees, and their resettlement in the United States.
Blinken does not provide Details about the precision steps of the appropriate evacuation and relocation will be reviewed.
“Now we owe ourselves, to our friends and partners of our Afghanistan, and to our State Department employees who might find themselves facing a similar challenge of one day Capture everything we learn, for Learn it, to preserve it, to preserve it, to preserve it, to preserve it, to preserve it, to preserve it, to preserve it that it increases our planning in the future and helps us to prepare better for future contingencies, “he said.