The official reason for the US military intervention in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks was to combat terrorism. Armin Laschet proposes a new initiative for the same purpose.
Union Chancellor candidate Armin Laschet has proposed a transatlantic initiative to ensure that Afghanistan does not become a hotbed of terrorism again after the Taliban came to power.
“We now have to work together to prevent a lawless area in Afghanistan from happening again,” said Laschet on Tuesday at an event organized by the “Atlantik-Brücke” association in Berlin. In this context, he also suggested reviving the so-called Petersberg Trial of 2001.
Laschet said that whether an Afghan government will tolerate lawless areas is also due to how much the West – the EU, the USA, Canada, NATO – jointly exert influence over the Taliban government. “If that succeeds in a coordinated manner, it can go well.” At the same time he warned: “If that goes wrong again in Afghanistan, terrorism will reach us again here.”
Laschet advocated reviving the 2001 Petersberg Trial. “Calling the actors together and introducing new ideas into foreign policy is particularly important in Germany at this time,” he said. At the Petersberg Conference in Koenigswinter near Bonn in 2001, the ethnic groups of Afghanistan agreed on a regulation for permanent government structures. Further Afghanistan conferences were later held in Berlin and Bonn.
The CDU chairman and North Rhine-Westphalian Prime Minister called the development in Afghanistan a warning call and a bitter moment for the West and everyone who ticks transatlantic. Laschet, who is himself a member of the “Atlantik-Brücke”, also criticized the US’s uncoordinated approach to withdrawing troops: “It was also bitter that what had been started with President Trump was implemented so seamlessly without agreeing to it with the allies speak, how do we actually do it in an orderly manner with a future perspective. ” At the same time, he underlined that there was an opportunity with US President Joe Biden to make politics based on shared values.
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