WASHINGTON, 23 November 2021, (TON): US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken sent a letter to Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia, Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani, in which he thanked the republic for helping to evacuate people from Afghanistan.

This was announced by the press service of the Georgian Foreign Ministry.

The press service of the Georgian Foreign Ministry said “I join you and the Georgian people, I salute the 32 Georgians who sacrificed themselves, as well as the more than 300 people who were injured defending our common values. regional problems. We expect the strengthening of our strategic partnership to strengthen our common interests.”

On April 14, US President Biden announced his decision to end the operation in Afghanistan. After that, the Taliban mo-vement lau-nched a large-scale operation to establish control over the country and on August 15 entered Kabul without a fight. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani left the country.

The Georgian authorities announced that they had deployed NATO military transport aircraft on the territory of the Tbilisi International Airport, which flew to Kabul for evacuation of people or for other humanitarian purposes.