LONDON: England is closely coordinated with the United States and does not encourage open at Kabul Airport where a suicide bomber killed 13 US troops and a number of Afghan civilians, British foreign secretaries Dominic Raab said on Tuesday.
A politico report on Monday said American forces decided to keep the monastery gate open longer than they wanted to allow Britain to continue to evacuate personnel.
“We got our civilian staff from the processing center by the monastery of the gate, but it was not true to suggest that, besides securing our civilian staff inside the airport, that we tried to leave the open gate,” Raab told Sky News.
He said England had taken mitigation actions, including warnings of people not to come to the airport.
“We also shifted the civil team that we had in the Baron Hotel to the airport, because (moderate) a stone’s throw from the place of terrorist attacks took place, clearly insecure, but nothing would be needed or required to be allowed to be left open,” he told BBC News.
Raab defended his response to the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, rejecting the report that he failed to do enough to prepare himself.
Raab, who was on vacation when the Taliban swept Afghanistan, did not mention Afghanistan or Pakistan’s foreign ministers in six months before the crisis, weeks reported.
“Politics is a rough game,” he said.
“Anyone who took the time during the crisis to provide a series of truly inaccurate reporting, tilted, I was worried that he didn’t have credibility and might be involved in the buck that passed themselves.” He said England had received a safe passage for 17,000 people, including around 5,000 British citizens since April, with the remaining amounts in Afghanistan in “hundreds of” low “.