US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will testify about the withdrawal of American military from Afghanistan before the Senate. Reports about it The Hill.
According to the publication, the diplomat will appear before the Committee of the Senate on International Relations for the Certification of the testimony about the withdrawal of the US military contingent from the Afghan territory. The meeting with his participation will be held September 14th. It is noted that the purpose of the hearings will be clarified the reasons for the unpreparedness of the State Department for unforeseen circumstances during the evacuation from Kabul.
Democrat Robert Menendes, who heads the Committee, said that the state structure would consider unsuccessful negotiations of the former US President Donald Trump with the Taliban movement (a terrorist organization prohibited in Russia) and an unsuccessful operation on the withdrawal of US troops, which the administration of the current leader of Joe Bayiden coordinated . “The Committee will achieve full accounting of these shortcomings, as well as the assessment of why Afghan national defense and security forces surrendered so fast,” he said.
Earlier it was reported that the US authorities did not evacuate about two thousand local residents from Afghanistan, who worked on the American Embassy in Kabul, and their family members. Among those who were not able to evacuate, including students and graduates of the Afghan University, applicants for receiving special American immigration visas, as well as hundreds of former fighters of special forces of the republic, fought on the US side.