Atta celebrates the first anniversary of the US withdrawal

On August 30, local time, the US military withdrew the first anniversary of Afghanistan. At 11:59 pm on August 30, 2021, the last C-17 transport aircraft carrying the US military left Kabul, marking a completely 21 war between the United States and Taliban, Afghanistan.

Atta announced that August 31 was a public holiday in Afghanistan. Atta issued a statement that this day marks "Afghanistan has got rid of the US occupation" and emphasizes that "many children have become orphans and many women have become widow in the past 20 years.

Taliban held a celebration at the Air Force Base where the U.S. military was once stationed on the same day, but foreign media were prohibited from participating.

According to statistics, since October 7, 2001, about 66,000 Afghan soldiers and 48,000 civilians were killed in the war. The US military also killed 2461 people, consuming more than 2.3 trillion US dollars. The U.S. military said on August 30: "The burden of Afghanistan war exceeded the scope of Americans (tolerance)."

According to Agence France -Presse, after Atta came to power, the United States frozen Afghanistan's billions of dollars of foreign exchange and international assets, which led the country to face humanity and economic predicament, and about 38 million people fell into a "desperate" humanitarian crisis.

In February 2022, US President Biden signed an administrative order to divide the average US assets of about $ 7 billion in the central bank of Afghanistan, half of the victims of the "September 11" terrorist attacks, and the other half transferred to the other half. A account of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, "for helping the people in Afghanistan." Biden made it clear that these assets will not be paid to "Taliban currently controlled Afghanistan."

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhao Lijian quoted poll data at a regular press conference on August 30 that the United States frozen Afghan Central Bank's US $ 7 billion assets was considered "naked plunder" by the Afghan people.

Zhao Lijian emphasized that the United States should seriously respond to the strong voice of the people in Afghanistan and the international community, immediately returned the Assets of the Central Bank of Afghanistan, smoothing the trauma of the people in Afghanistan with actual actions, and an accountable explanation to the international community.

Source 丨 Comprehensive

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