Faizel Patel – 23/06/2021
Al Jazeera political analyst Hashmatullah Moslih says Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani, the chairman of Afghanistan’s High Council for National Reconciliation Abdullah Abdullah and US President Joe Biden will discuss a broad range of issues when they meet on Friday.
In their first face-to-face meeting, Biden will seek to reassure Ghani and Abdullah of US support for the Afghan people including diplomatic, economic and humanitarian assistance.
The White House says the visit by President Ghani and Dr Abdullah will highlight the enduring partnership between the United States and Afghanistan as the military drawdown continues.
Moslih says the smooth withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan among other conditions will be at the top the agenda when the trio meet.
“The US must give some sort of guarantee or some sort of air power, air cover for Afghan forces, Afghanistan does not have a very functioning air force. Also the US will give guarantee that it will support Afghanistan financially because for the last twenty years Afghanistan’s economy has been an economy of war.”
Moslih says Ghani and Abdullah would like the current government to finish its term in office in about three years.
“That is not acceptable to the Taliban, the Taliban wants the current government to step aside and interim government to come into force and the Taliban would work with that interim government. But Ghani has said that he will never accept an interim government.”
Since Biden’s decision in April to pull out all US troops before September 11 to end America’s longest war after nearly 20 years of conflict, the Taliban have fought daily battles with government forces and claim to have captured 40 districts.
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