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Taliban must decide if they want international recognition: Biden
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WASHINGTON, 20 August 2021, (TON): The Taliban must decide whether they want to be recognised by the international community, US President Joe Biden said in an interview aired.
He added that he did not think the group had changed its fundamental beliefs.
Asked if he thought the Taliban had changed, Biden told media, "No."
He said "I think they're going through a sort of existential crisis about: Do they want to be recognised by the international community as being a legitimate government? I'm not sure they do, group appeared more committed to its beliefs.”
But, he added, the Taliban also had to grapple with whether it could provide for Afghans.
Biden said in the interview "they also care about whether they have food to eat, whether they have an income that can run an economy, they care about whether or not they can hold together the society that they in fact say they care so much about."
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