LONDON: England urged the United States to extend evacuation efforts in Kabul outside the deadline August 31 at this time, said without America other countries would have no choice but to stop their own operations to help people escape from the Taliban takeover.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson plans to pressure President Joe Biden at the emergency meeting group seven leaders on Tuesday held by Britain.
Some British military leaders said England had to keep troops at Kabul airport to continue evacuation efforts even if Americans went.
But the Minister of Armed Forces James Hearpey said Monday that “There is a difficult fact that there will be no international airlift without the way the US is ridiculing”.
He said that “whether the US can be persuaded to remain a problem for the prime minister tomorrow in the G-7 meeting”.
He said that the Taliban agreement would also be needed for extension.
Biden hasn’t put aside extending the airlift outside the August 31 deadline which he set in front of the Taliban quickly in Afghanistan, but he said he hoped it was not necessary.
England said his troops had evacuated more than 5,700 people – especially citizens of British and Afghanistan – from Kabul in the last 10 days, 1,821 of them in the last 24 hours.