LONDON: British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said Tuesday that “impossible” evacuation from Afghanistan would be extended beyond August 31, because the G7 leaders prepared to discuss the crisis.
The UK will lead emergency talks among the rich country groups Tuesday, and have said it will urge the United States to extend the deadline to complete Airlifts Afghanistan.
France also called Washington to push back the timeline.
But for hours before the Summit, Wallace admitted that the two US President Joe Biden and Taliban leaders are now in power in Kabul have doubted serious doubts on the evacuation continuing to September.
“I think it’s impossible,” he told Sky News.
“Not only because of what Taliban said, but if you look at the President of the President of Biden, I think it’s impossible.” It must be worth all of us trying, and we will do it.
“Biden has set a May 3 deadline to completing AirLift Chaotic which is organized by thousands to spread US and British troops while, but has left the door open for an extension if needed.
However, a Taliban spokesman warned that Monday the hardline Islamic group would not approve the extension Whatever, calling the problem “red line”, with any delay seen as “extending work”.
“If the US or Britain will look for additional time to continue the evacuation – the answer is not.
Or there will be a consequence, “Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen told Sky News.
England continued to evacuate Western residents and several Afghans from the capital, with Wallace warn the security situation increasingly” August 31 defense.
The ministry said 8,458 people had been evacuated by the UK since August 13, with nine military flights left Kabul in the last 24 hours.
More than half 5,171 were Afghans qualified to move to England and military and civil officials.
During their two decades involvement in Afghanistan.
An individual in the list of regulators anti-terrorism without British terrorism arrived as part of evacuation, the Interior Ministry confirmed.
A spokesman said the individual was identified as “as part of a strict inspection process” and that after further investigation was considered “not an interesting person for security institutions or law enforcers”.
Meanwhile, at the night of the G7 meeting, BR Previous Minister Boris Johnson said the world’s top economic leaders must also pay attention to “the next phase” for Afghanistan.
His office said he would urge fellow leaders to increase support for refugees and to re-appreciate “their commitment to maintain the benefits made in Afghanistan for the past 20 years – especially in the education of girls and women’s rights and minorities”.
The UK currently leads the G7, which also consists of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States.