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Evening Standard
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Leah Sinclair and Tom Ambrose

Afghanistan news live updates: Taliban’s first press conference ‘We don’t want any enemies’

The Taliban are holding their first press conference after taking over in Kabul.

Their spokesperson said: “We don’t want any external or internal enemies.”

It comes after Afghanistan vice president Amrullah Saleh has said that he is in Afghanistan and is the “legitimate caretaker president”.

Taking to Twitter, Mr Saleh wrote: “According to the explicit provision of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, in case of absence, escape or death of the President, the First Vice President will be the acting President.

“I am inside the country and I am legally and legitimately in charge of this position / chair. I am consulting with all the leaders of the country to strengthen this position.”

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