“I don’t think we’re yet able to say anything formal but that’s looking like it may happen at some point in the near future,” he told broadcasters. He said he had “good conversations” with the Qatari emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, about the “workability” of evacuations resuming from the airport for UK nationals and Afghans who worked with Britain.
“There is important scope for engagement and dialogue,” he said. Raab, under intense criticism at home from opposition politicians and sections of the Ministry of Defence, said the UK would not be recognising the Taliban any time soon, but added the UK had to be pragmatic and realistic if it wished to relay messages to the new regime. Speaking after talks in Qatar on Thursday, Raab raised hopes that the Britons and Afghans left behind may be able to leave on flights from Afghanistan’s capital.
Evacuations may be able to resume from Kabul airport “in the near future”, the foreign secretary, Dominic Raab, has said as he expressed a need for direct engagement with the Taliban.
0 kommentar(er)
