{"id":1543530,"date":"2022-07-07T17:49:31","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T21:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1543530"},"modified":"2022-07-07T17:49:35","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T21:49:35","slug":"biden-moves-to-rescind-afghanistans-status-as-a-major-non-nato-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-moves-to-rescind-afghanistans-status-as-a-major-non-nato-ally\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Moves To Rescind Afghanistan\u2019s Status As A Major Non-NATO Ally"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-moves-to-rescind-afghanistans-status-as-a-major-non-nato-ally%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1543530&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> sent a letter to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/congress\">Congress<\/a> on Wednesday stating that he would officially rescind <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/afghanistan\">Afghanistan\u2019s<\/a> status as a Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn accordance with section 517 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (22 U.S.C. 2321k), I am providing notice of my intent to rescind the designation of Afghanistan as a Major Non NATO Ally.\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/statements-releases\/2022\/07\/06\/letter-to-the-speaker-of-the-house-and-president-of-the-senate-providing-notice-of-the-presidents-intent-to-rescind-the-designation-of-afghanistan-as-a-major-non-nato-ally\/\">wrote<\/a> in a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).<\/p>\n<p>The measure comes after Afghanistan has been back under the control of the Taliban for nearly 11 months since the Biden administration completed its withdrawal last August. The American-backed regime collapsed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/11-days-in-august-how-afghanistan-fell\/\">within two weeks<\/a> as the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital of Kabul after nearly two decades of military and economic support. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/08\/30\/evacuation-may-be-ending-americas-responsibility-afghan-friends-left-behind-is-not\/\">Thousands of Americans<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/in-hasty-withdrawal-u-s-left-behind-7b-of-military-gear-including-78-aircraft-and-12000-humvees-in-afghanistan-report\">billions of dollars<\/a> worth of military equipment were left.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/07\/06\/politics\/afghanistan-major-non-nato-ally-designation-biden-rescind\/index.html\"> first designated<\/a> a MNNA in 2012 under the Obama administration, with then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announcing the change.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/major-non-nato-ally-status\/\">State Department<\/a>, \u201cThe Major Non-NATO Ally designation is a powerful symbol of the close relationship the United States shares with those countries and demonstrates our deep respect for the friendship for the countries to which it is extended. While MNNA status provides military and economic privileges, it does not entail any security commitments to the designated country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those \u201cmilitary and economic privileges\u201d include expedited sales of U.S. military equipment, eligibility for loans of supplies and material, support for the training of personnel, and allowing firms within the nation to bid on Department of Defense contracts.<\/p>\n<p>With Afghanistan\u2019s removal from the list, the remaining MNNA\u2019s include Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Qatar, South Korea, Thailand, and Tunisia. Taiwan is treated as a MNNA despite not being officially recognized as such.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration has sent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/u-s-pumps-308-million-more-into-afghanistan\">hundreds of millions of dollars<\/a> to Afghanistan since the nation fell under the control of the Taliban.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden sent a letter to Congress on Wednesday stating that he would officially rescind Afghanistan\u2019s status as a Major Non-NATO Ally (MNNA). \u201cIn accordance with section 517 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended (22 U.S.C. 2321k), I am providing notice of my intent to rescind the designation of Afghanistan as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":856,"featured_media":1528658,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1528658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}