Chinese Foreign Minister: ‘U.S. Must Assume Responsibility For Reconstruction of Afghanistan’

According to Wang Yi, the hasty pullout of U.S. troops and allied forces has entailed new problems in Afghanistan The United States is obliged to assume the responsibility for the reconstruction of Afghanistan and to provide economic and humanitarian assistance to it, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said at a four-party meeting with his Russian, Iranian and Pakistani counterparts on the sidelines of the SCO and CSTO summits in Dushanbe. “The hasty pullout of U.S. troops and allied forces has entailed new problems in Afghanistan,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry quotes Wang as saying. He stressed that Afghanistan’s new political structure…