{"id":680765,"date":"2021-08-24T17:36:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T21:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=680765"},"modified":"2021-08-24T17:36:16","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T21:36:16","slug":"g7-leaders-ask-for-withdrawal-extension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/g7-leaders-ask-for-withdrawal-extension\/","title":{"rendered":"G7 leaders ask for withdrawal extension"},"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\">12<\/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%2Fg7-leaders-ask-for-withdrawal-extension%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=680765&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--><div id=\"attachment_2499711\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2499711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In this handout photo provided by the German Government Press Office (BPA), German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a virtual G7 meeting, hosted by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Guido Bergmann\/Bundesregierung via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 2:23 PM PT \u2013 Tuesday, August 24, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>Joe Biden spoke with international leaders about the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan at an emergency meeting of the G7. During virtual talks on Tuesday, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson joined Germany\u2019s Angela Merkel and France\u2019s Emmanuel Macron to demand an extension of the withdrawal deadline of August 31.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration appeared to have no intention of extending the deadline however, which was a move top officials from the U.K. predicted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it is unlikely, not only because what the Taliban have said, but also if you look at the public statements of President Biden, I think it is an unlikely,\u201d explained British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace. \u201cIt is definitely worth us all trying and we will.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Read the G7 leaders statement following their call today on the situation in Afghanistan \u2935\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zNRqA47xW5\">https:\/\/t.co\/zNRqA47xW5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 G7 UK (@G7) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/G7\/status\/1430209660397793282?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden has been adamant of not extending the date, despite the Taliban doubling down on its demand for U.S. forces to leave by the end of the month. Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said an extension was not apart of the plan because the goal to leave at month\u2019s end had not changed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president\u2019s direction has been to complete this withdrawal, this evacuation and withdrawal by the 31st of August,\u201d he stated. \u201cThat is the direction we are operating under and therefore that is driving a lot of our plans.<\/p>\n<p>The comments came after the Taliban, which the White House claimed to be working closely with, said any extension would be intolerable.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I must remind you that the withdrawal of the Americans by 31st is also a one sided act and contrary to our agreement,\u201d asserted Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid. \u201cWe are sending a message to the Americans again to evacuate their citizens by this because they have the means to do so, they have planes and the airport is with them and they have to transfer all the forces and contractors who have relation with foreigners.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/G7?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@G7<\/a> committed to work together on the immediate evacuation effort to ensure this continues safely.<\/p>\n<p>We also agreed we must have a shared roadmap for engaging with the Taliban that aims to preserve the progress of the last 20 years. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YciNnWYtaP\">pic.twitter.com\/YciNnWYtaP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BorisJohnson\/status\/1430232371262115840?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Top military officials said to meet the August 31 deadline, troops would have to start pulling out this Friday. It has remained unclear how many people still needed to be evacuated from Afghanistan, as administration officials said tens of thousands have been rescued while refusing to say how many Americans were included in that number.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/president-trump-asks-court-to-reinstate-youtube-account\/\">President Trump Asks Court To Reinstate YouTube Account<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this handout photo provided by the German Government Press Office (BPA), German Chancellor Angela Merkel attends a virtual G7 meeting, hosted by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Berlin, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680765","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\/680765","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}