Foreign secretary says need for the call while he was in Crete was ‘quickly overtaken by events’
Dominic Raab has confirmed he delegated a phone call with the Afghan foreign minister to a junior, and argued that it was the correct thing to do, in his first statement on events that have prompted, the foreign secretary said that last Friday while he was on a family holiday in Crete, his private office was advised to call his Afghan counterpart, Hanif Atmar, but instead this was done by a junior minister.
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