US President Joe Biden has announced that he has stripped Afghanistan of its status as a major US partner outside of NATO.
And according to a presidential memorandum to the Secretary of State released by the White House, “Afghanistan is thus annulled as a major non-NATO partner of the United States.”
In early July, the White House announced that Biden intended to deprive Afghanistan of the status of the main US partner outside NATO.
The Taliban seized power in Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, coinciding with the withdrawal of US and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) forces from the country.
The Taliban formed an interim government to run the country’s affairs after the collapse of a previous government loyal to President Ashraf Ghani, who left the country without much resistance before the movement’s fighters arrived in Kabul.
The countries of the world have not yet recognized the government formed by the Taliban; The condition that he fulfill a number of conditions, the first of which is the guarantee of freedoms and the observance of the rights of women and minorities, and also that the Afghan lands do not become a springboard for terrorist acts.