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RAMSTEIN (Germany), Sept 9 ― US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned yesterday that the Taliban would have to earn legitimacy from the world, after talks with allies on how to present a united front to the hardline new government in Afghanistan. “The Taliban seek international legitimacy....

RAMSTEIN , Sept 9 ― US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned yesterday that the Taliban would have to earn legitimacy from the world, after talks with allies on how to present a united front to the hardline new government in Afghanistan.

“But nothing along the lines of, we think we have to recognise or legitimise the government in the near term,” he said. “A stable & peaceful Afghanistan only be achieved through more, not less, regional & int'l engagement.German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas noted the international community expected the Taliban to uphold human rights, including those of women, grant access to humanitarian aid and allow those wishing to leave the country to do so.

At the entrance to a vast hangar where some of the 11,000 Afghans at Ramstein await flights to the United States, Blinken showed photos on his telephone of his own children to the four-year-old son of Mustafa Mohammadi, an Afghan military veteran turned refugee who worked with the US embassy. But US officials acknowledge that many more remain and say the Taliban have agreed to let them leave.

 

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