MADRID, 14 Ago. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani, announced this Saturday the beginning of a process of national and international consultations to prevent the complete destabilization of the country in the face of the inexorable Taliban advance in the provincial capitals.
Ghani is criticized by the Taliban, who do not recognize him as a legitimate interlocutor, and by a large part of the population, fed up with the endemic corruption of their government.
For some time now, the president has completely refused to announce a transitional government in the country and to leave office after new elections, a solution proposed by US diplomats, considering that it would be an unconstitutional act.
In fact, and according to sources from the British newspaper ‘The Independent’, US Defense and State Secretaries Lloyd Austin and Antony Blinken spoke with Ghani by phone to insist that he resign from office and announce the formation of a transitional government. to facilitate a ceasefire.
Now, in a speech to the nation, Ghani has announced the beginning of “broad consultations inside and outside the government, with political leaders and international partners” to “prevent further instability, violence and displacement of my people.”
“Soon I will share the results of these consultations with my people,” said the president in his speech, collected by Tolo News.
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