Afghan ambassador to US says her people won't trust an American president again anytime soon following military pullout
He described the process as an"Raz said she and her colleagues had been"She said she believed he wouldn't withdraw US troops from the region or would at least try to renegotiate the deal former President Donald Trump had struck with the Taliban in February 2020.that Trump's deal, which set a date for the US to withdraw its troops, helped speed up the Taliban's capture of Afghanistan.
Raz said, however, that it became clear that Biden did not even intend to put more stringent conditions on the Taliban than her predecessor."I think everybody hoped that he would put stronger conditions [on the Taliban] which he did not. "It was very well accepted to me and to a lot of us — we said that the US troops would withdraw, but there has to be conditions on the Taliban that they commit to the achievements that the Afghan society has made."to which she was appointed by the former Afghan president Ashraf Ghani.
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