China slams ‘hasty’ withdrawal of US troops from Afghan; urges UN to play ‘due role’

China has stated that the US troop withdrawal from war-torn Afghanistan has seriously affected the peace process and regional stability, calling on the UN to play its "due role" and urging the SCO to pay more attention to the situation.

China has said that the “hasty” withdrawal of the US troops from war-torn Afghanistan has severely affected the peace process and the regional stability as it called on the UN to play its “due role” and urged the SCO to pay more attention to the situation. The issue of US withdrawal from Afghanistan figured in the telephonic conversation between Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his Pakistan counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Saturday. Wang said that the “hasty withdrawal of the US troops from Afghanistan”, which is expected to be completed by September this year, has severely impacted the Afghan domestic peace process and negatively affected the regional stability.