{"id":707090,"date":"2021-09-01T16:50:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T20:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=707090"},"modified":"2021-09-01T16:50:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T20:50:25","slug":"state-department-sidesteps-question-on-recognizing-taliban-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-department-sidesteps-question-on-recognizing-taliban-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"State Department Sidesteps Question On Recognizing Taliban Regime"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fstate-department-sidesteps-question-on-recognizing-taliban-regime%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=707090&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>The State Department evaded a question Wednesday on whether the Biden administration would recognize the Taliban as the rightful government of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have obviously had contacts with the Taliban \u2014 we had it during the effort that we were trying to midwife a negotiation,\u201d Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9WHVD6kummE\">told<\/a> reporters during a briefing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose conversations have continued intensively to enable the evacuation that we undertook and to try to get the kinds of guarantees of safe passage and tolerance and to talk about the standard set in the U.N. Security Council resolution, to talk about the terrorist threat as well because the expectation is that \u2014 they claimed to be able to control the security of Afghanistan,\u201d she continued. \u201cWe\u2019ll see if that is the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nuland added that the Biden administration\u2019s current approach toward the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/01\/secret-cia-compound-salt-pit-avoid-taliban-checkpoints-evacuate-thousands\/\">Taliban<\/a> is a \u201cfar cry\u201d from formal recognition, but didn\u2019t say the U.S. would never recognize the group. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/29\/gun-holding-taliban-fighters-afghan-tv-presenter-public-has-nothing-to-fear-cooperate\/\">(RELATED: Afghan TV Show Host Surrounded By Taliban With Guns Tells Public Not To Be Afraid And Cooperate)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The U.N. Security Council convened on Aug. 16, days after the Taliban <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/19\/taliban-us-weapons-vehicles-equipment-afghanistan-defense-department\/\">took control of Kabul<\/a>, to issue a charter on the situation in Afghanistan. The council <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/press\/en\/2021\/sc14604.doc.htm\">called for<\/a> the establishment of a government that is an \u201cinclusive, just, durable and realistic political settlement that upholds human rights, including for women, children and minorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7274286\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"34\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7274286\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7274286\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-979530014-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland testifies during a hearing on June 20, 2018. (Alex Wong\/Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-979530014-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-979530014-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-979530014-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-979530014-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-979530014-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/GettyImages-979530014-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7274286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland testifies during a hearing on June 20, 2018. (Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Nuland said the U.S. would monitor the Taliban\u2019s adherence to the charter.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1432813456944664585\">refused<\/a> to label the Taliban an enemy. Department of Defense spokesperson John Kirby <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/townhallcom\/status\/1428486745687986180\">stopped short<\/a>&nbsp;of calling the group an enemy.<\/p>\n<p>The Treasury Department quietly issued a license last week, allowing it and U.S. allies to flow humanitarian aid into Afghanistan despite its sanctions against the Taliban, Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/asia-pacific\/exclusive-us-treasury-issued-new-license-ease-flow-aid-afghanistan-2021-09-01\/\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Taliban will be judged on their actions \u2014 how they respect the international commitments made by the country, how they respect basic rules of democracy and rule of law,\u2019\u2019 European Union spokesperson Peter Stano said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/09\/01\/world\/asia\/taliban-un-afghanistan-us.html\">statement<\/a> to The New York Times on Wednesday. \u201cThe biggest red line is respect for human rights and the rights of women, especially.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Department evaded a question Wednesday on whether the Biden administration would recognize the Taliban as the rightful government of Afghanistan.\u201cWe have obviously had contacts with the Taliban \u2014 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-707090","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\/707090","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=707090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707090\/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=707090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}