girls and taliban in afghanistan under the taliban. reinstructions on education, movement, health care, physical safety under their regime paunt paunt a grim picture. how will they support partners for wum s rights and the rikts of ethnic and religious minorities. thank you. go ahead. thank you, congressman. one of the true will you great achievements of the last 20 years was the progress made by women and girls in afghanistan and one thing that we should be proud of is the support, the leading support that we gave to them when it comes to education, health care, the workforce, entrepreneurship, those gains were significant. we were the leading contributor. i was in kabul in april.
0 legitimizing them as a real government? not only us, but virtually the entire international community has made clear what we expect and will insist on from the taliban. if they want to seek any legitimacy or any support. and that includes, it starts with freedom of travel. so we have been intensely engaged with turkey in qatar to get the airport in kabul up and running again which is now the case. we started to get flights out last week. and with regard to sharif, you re correct. there are flights that have been there for some time that have not been allowed to leave. we want to see the flights leave. we want to allow the flights to start to move. and we re working on that every day. thank you. i yield back. thank you. mr. secretary. we requested such a classified briefing not too long ago. we welcome your assurance to schedule this briefing sometime in the immediate future. yes. absolutely. and i now recognize representative brad sherman from california for five minutes.