Afghan Voice Agency (AVA): By issuing a statement to the US Congress, Biden announced that the US national emergency regarding Afghanistan will continue after February 11, 2024 in accordance with Presidential Decree 14064.
In the statement of the White House, the widespread humanitarian crisis and the possibility of a deep economic collapse in Afghanistan have been announced as the reason for the extension of the state of emergency.
The extension of the US national emergency in Afghanistan must also be approved by the country's Congress.
Meanwhile, the US president has been accused of hiding confidential information about the war in Afghanistan.
US special investigator Robert Hore said in a report that the country's president, Joe Biden, while leaving the vice presidency in 2017, intentionally hid classified information about the war in Afghanistan and some security issues.
According to HORE: These documents included a handwritten memo to then US President Barack Obama in 2009 opposing the planned increase in troops in Afghanistan and handwritten notes related to intelligence and national security meetings.
It has been said that Biden will not face criminal charges due to secrecy about the classified documents.
The investigation into the president's concealment of classified documents began a year ago when some of the documents were found in his home, as well as in a private office used by Biden during his time in office in 1998. became.