In August 2021, the military equipment left by the US troops belongs to the Government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and remain at its disposal. The statement came from Spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Abdul Khaber Balkhi, Ariana News reports.
In an interview with CBS News, Balkhi said that the discussion on state assets is not implemented with one-sided statements, but through dialogue and cooperation, to find out the mutual interests. "People do not make transactions to sell their states," he said. Balkhin.
"They sign agreements after dialogue to find common sectors." This was reported after the recent statements of US President Donald Trump that the military equipment in Afghanistan on the flight of Western coalition troops in August 2021 should be returned. Hours before his inauguration on January 20, Trump said that future financial assistance to Afghanistan would be due to the return of American military equipment.
The 2022 report of the US Department of Defense has shown that US military equipment in Afghanistan includes 78 plane, 40,000 military vehicles and more than 300,000 firearms. The cost of the equipment is estimated at $ 7 billion. Trump himself, formerly estimated the total value of the "best weapon" in Afghanistan more than $ 85 billion.
