BORIS Johnson told Joe Biden we must not "lose gains" in Afghanistan as the two leaders finally thrashed out a strategy for the Afghanistan crisis.
The PM also spoke to the US President about Britain's plans to increase aid in the region and how the nation will resettle thousands of refugees, during a phone call on Tuesday night.
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The PM has had a late night talk with Joe Biden Credit: Getty 2
The president addressed the nation last night Credit: Getty
Both agreed to hold further talks at a virtual meeting of G7 leaders later this week.
A Downing Street spokesperson said: “The Prime Minister and President Biden agreed on the need for the global community to come together to prevent a humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan.
“The Prime Minister stressed the importance of not losing the gains made in Afghanistan over the last twenty years, of protecting ourselves against any emerging threat from terrorism and of continuing to support the people of Afghanistan.”
The Prime Minister stressed the importance of not losing the gains made in Afghanistan over the last twenty years
Downing Street spokesperson
This evening Home Secretary Priti Patel also chaired an emergency meeting with her five eyes counterparts from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada to coordinate the escape from Kabul.
It comes after Biden last night blasted the Afghan army for "giving up" in the face of the Taliban resurgence and said he "stands squarely behind" the decision to pull US troops out of the war-torn country.
Biden risked a global backlash after slamming the Afghan president and military leaders in an address from the White House, after days of silence on the crisis.
BLAME GAME
He heaped blame on the outgoing Afghan administration, which he said had “collapsed, sometimes without trying to fight”.
He said: “It is wrong to order American troops to step up when Afghan forces would not.
“American forces cannot and should not be fighting in a war and dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves.”
He also said that the Afghan government, led by president Ashraf Ghani, failed to take his advice and negotiate a political settlement with the Taliban.
Ghani has now fled the country, saying he was faced with a "hard choice" between the "armed Taliban" or "leaving the dear country that I dedicated my life to protecting the past 20 years".
BACKLASH
Critics claim The President's decision to completely withdraw from Afghanistan has undone 20 years of work and has opened up the likelihood of a humanitarian crisis as well as making Afghanistan a hotbed of terrorism.
The withdrawal from the country has been widely compared to the US evacuation of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War.
On Sunday Mr Johnson blamed the US for the advancement of the Taliban in Afghanistan claiming President Biden "accelerated" their control.
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The Prime Minister said the "difficult" situation had been exacerbated by the President's decision to withdraw troops from the war-torn country.
In the wake of a Cobra meeting on Sunday afternoon, Mr Johnson said it was "fair to say the US decision to pull out has accelerated things, but this has in many ways been a chronicle of an event foretold."
He urged the West to come together to stop Afghanistan again becoming a "breeding ground for terrorism" after the Defence Select Committee chairman warned of terrorist attacks on the West "on the scale of 9/11."
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