Public Witness Hearing of the 1st Committee of Inquiry “Afghanistan”
25 November 2024
Berlin. The 1st Committee of Inquiry “Afghanistan” of the German Bundestag will hold a public witness hearing on November 25, 2024. The focus of the hearing will be on the period from June 2021 to August 2021, during which the Taliban took over Afghanistan and the Bundeswehr evacuated German citizens and local Afghan employees from the country.
The committee has summoned several witnesses to the hearing, including:
- Heiko Maas, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2018 to 2021
- Jens Stoltenberg, Secretary General of NATO from 2014 to 2022
- Markus Potzel, Special Representative of the Federal Government for Afghanistan from 2016 to 2021
- Karin Kneissl, former Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs and former OSCE Special Representative for the Moldova Conflict Settlement Process
- Emanuel Macron, President of France from 2017 to present
- Borys Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2022
- Anthony Blinken, United States Secretary of State from 2021 to present
The witnesses are expected to provide the committee with information about the following topics:
- The decision-making process leading up to the withdrawal of German troops from Afghanistan
- The evacuation of German citizens and local Afghan employees
- The collapse of the Afghan government and the Taliban takeover
- The geopolitical consequences of the withdrawal
- The lessons learned from the Afghanistan mission
The hearing will be held in public and will be broadcast live on the Bundestag’s website. Members of the public who wish to attend the hearing in person can register in advance on the Bundestag’s website.
The 1st Committee of Inquiry “Afghanistan” was established in September 2021 to investigate the German government’s handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan. The committee is composed of 15 members of the Bundestag, representing all parliamentary groups. The committee is chaired by Roderich Kiesewetter (CDU/CSU).
The committee’s investigation is expected to take several months. The committee is expected to produce a final report in early 2025.
Öffentliche Zeugenvernehmung des 1. Untersuchungsausschusses „Afghanistan“
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