“The US military will remain in Afghanistan until the evacuation of all of our citizens out of that country”, said Joe Biden, The President of the Us, in the interview with ABC TV channel.
The American leader stressed that the authorities will try to meet the originally set deadline for troop withdrawals (August 31), if to that time it won’t be possible to take all of the US citizens out of the country, then the military mission will be extended.
Biden also mentioned that currently there are 10-15 thousand Americans in Afghanistan.
Besides the US citizens, the US Government intends to also evacuate 50-60 thousand Afghans, who want to leave the country. The head of the White House considered it possible if 5-7 thousand people will be evacuated every day till the end of the month.