UK, US kept terrorists from Afghanistan for 20 years with our heroic partnership
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U.K., U.S. heroic commitment to people of Afghanistan prevented that nation from turning into a safe haven for terrorists during our 20 years there.
Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon is the minister for South Asia and Afghanistan, North Africa, the United Nations and the Commonwealth at the U.K.’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. He was first appointed as the prime minister’s special representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict and as minister of state for the Commonwealth and the United Nations on June 13, 2017.
Our primary objective when we deployed to Afghanistan 20 years ago was to ensure that it wasn't used as a base for international terrorism – and there has not been a successful international terrorist attack on the West mounted from Afghanistan since 9/11.