President Biden vows sustained help as Afghanistan drawdown nears Share Updated: 8:44 PM EDT Jun 25, 2021 By ERIC TUCKER, BEN FOX and AAMER MADHANI, Associated Press
President Biden vows sustained help as Afghanistan drawdown nears Share Updated: 8:44 PM EDT Jun 25, 2021
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Show Transcript Well, it s good to see two old friends we met many, many times in Afghanistan for long hours and they re welcome here. The partnership between Afghanistan and United States is not ending. It s going to be sustained and r truth may be leaving, but support for Afghanistan is not ending in terms of support and maintenance of their helping to maintain their military as well as economic and political support. And they have to, Afghans are gonna have to decide their future what they, what they want, what they want. But it won t be for lack of us being helped. There s gonna be a and the senseless violence that has to stop. But it s going to be ver
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WASHINGTON (AP) President Joe Biden on Friday promised Afghanistan’s top leaders a “sustained” partnership even as he moves to accelerate winding down the United States’ longest war amid escalating Taliban violence.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, chair of the High Council for National Reconciliation, met at the Pentagon with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin before their sit-down with Biden at the White House later in the afternoon. While Biden vowed that the U.S. was committed to assisting Afghanistan, he also insisted that it was time for the American military to step back.
“Afghans are going to have to decide their future,” Biden said in brief remarks at the start of his meeting with the Afghan leaders. Biden did not elaborate on what a ’’sustained” partnership might entail.
President Joe Biden has promised Afghanistan's top leaders a "sustained" partnership even as he moves to accelerate winding down the United States' longest war amid escalating Taliban violence.
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