“We are part of an urgent team effort to move evacuated Afghans from temporary shelters to staging bases in the Persian Gulf and Europe and beyond so that they can start a new life.

And I will go to the Persian Gulf next week to thank our partners there who have done so much to help and provide shelter to peaceful Afghans, ”he said at a press conference, quoted by TASS.

Austin did not specify which countries he will visit as part of the trip.

On August 31, US President Joe Biden described the US withdrawal from Afghanistan as a successful mission.

On August 30, the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration announced that the United States no longer controls the Kabul airport.

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 "Taliban" - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of February 14, 2003.