The spokesperson of the US State Department refused to answer the fate of the Afghan airplanes and helicopters

According to the regional office of Tasnim news agency, “Matthew Miller, the spokesperson of the US Department of State, refused to answer the fate of Afghan planes and helicopters in Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in a press conference.

In this meeting, the reporter asked Miller: The leaders of the Taliban want to return the helicopters and military planes of Afghanistan that were transferred to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan during the collapse of the former government. They say that the United States does not allow these helicopters and planes to be returned to Afghanistan. What is the position of the United States on this matter?

In response, the spokesperson of the US Foreign Ministry stated that he will first answer another question and then explain the US position, but he did not provide an explanation until the end of the press conference.

In the midst of the fall of Ashraf Ghani’s government on August 24, 1400, a number of pilots of the former government of Afghanistan fled to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan and transferred about 50 helicopters and airplanes to these countries.

The Taliban government has always emphasized that these planes and helicopters belong to Afghanistan and should be returned to this country, but the Uzbek and Tajik authorities say that they belong to the United States and were delivered to Kabul. They will not.

Not long ago, “Politico” quoted a senior official of the Ministry of Defense and an aide to the US Congress. American officials are negotiating with Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in order to reach an informal agreement on “deepening security relations” in exchange for handing over these planes.

According to this report , the agreement could include increased information sharing, deployment of troops or aircraft in those countries as a regional base to monitor Afghanistan.

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