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Afghan parties by their actions, not words. legitimacy of a future government depends on the approach it now takes to uphold commitments to ensure a stable afghanistan. i guess the question is this, senator. is there a point if the rest of the world is going to recognize the taliban, we kind of have no choice but to do so as well? >> i expect the united states will play a leadership role among our allies in the way we move forward with the taliban government. they have to respect international n...

Speaking before an emergency session on afghanistan, un rights chief michelle bachelet urged the taliban to honour commitments to respect the rights of women and girls, and ethnic and religious minorities, and refrain from reprisals. the taliban has pledged to protect and respect human rights. taliban spokes people have made specific commitments to protect womens right to work and will girls rights to attend school within the talibans interpretation of islamic law. they have also said they will ...

To recommit to safeguarding the rights of women and minorities and girls education in afghanistan, and to making sure any new government sticks to its international obligations. speaking ahead of the meeting, borisjohnson said the taliban would bejudged by their deeds and not their words. the g7 may well face the same expectation. speaking before an emergency session on afghanistan, un human rights chief michelle bachelet urged the taliban to honour commitments to respect the rights of women and...

Out and to not have the americans withdraw. its the americans providing all of the air cover there. what are you hearing about whether hes made a decision and whether this deadline that the taliban has set will be firm? >> as you lay out for other partner nations they need the u.s. to get their own citizens out and that is obviously a complex issue with obligations to those partners as well as commitments already made publicly for the president who has said every american who wants to leave will...

A little optimistic. talks between the two sides did take place last september, but went nowhere. this was then—president ghani speaking to the bbc about them in february of this year. it takes two parties. we have a sense of urgency. do you think that taliban are negotiating in good faith? well, the jury is out. the presidents jury was out. he wasnt the only one feeling that way. despite it being billed as "an agreement for bringing peace", many questioned the value of the talibans commitment...

Safe passage and well hold them accountable. as with all commitments, were focused on deeds, not words. what matters to us is the follow-through. what matters is the follow-through now, before august 31 and the follow-through after august 31. let me make another point. the taliban has also said publicly that they want an afghanistan that has a relationship with the rest of the world. they want to ensure that the afghanistan, under a future afghan government, is not the pariah that it would becom...

International pressure to the taliban to respect some of the commitments they have made about how they will govern their own people. they are now at a crossroads in which they can either go back to being a pariah in the world community, a pariah in which they will not have any funding sources, will be subject to sanctions, or in which they could have potentially some kind of constructive relationship if they can take care of their people and respect some of the things and the progress made in af...

Thing. charter flights are another. as you have seen when it comes to charter flights now, they have been able to remove and bring to safety thousands upon thousands of individuals. look, we dont want to get ahead of things. right now were focused on the evacuation operation that the united states government is running and as long as we will be running as long as were in a position to do so. the point is that the taliban made statements and commitments. the rest of the world has made -- sent tho...

Challenge getting from their home to the airport, that that gets resolved, that they be able to have safe passage. then its up to us to get them inside the airport. thats what were doing now. >> it seems, though, that americans are getting harassed by the taliban, and our allies are getting harassed by them. whats the fallout for the taliban if theyre reneging on this agreement? >> if in the end americans are blocked from getting to the airport, blocked from leaving the country or our operations...

The rest of the world needs a functioning commercial airport. were in discussions with the taliban on this very front. they have indicated to us that they seek to have a functioning commercial airport. so thats our hope and expectation, that theres a functioning commercial airport what we know coupled with that is that these guarantees of safe passage, the commitments dont have an expiration date. certainly stands to reason and we will hold the taliban to this, the rest of the world will to as w...