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Biden was a longtime member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
In 1997, he became the ranking minority member and chaired the committee in January 2001 and from June 2001 to 2003.
When Democrats retook control of the Senate after the 2006 elections, Biden again assumed the top spot on the committee.
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The United States will remain in Afghanistan beyond the date on which Afghan forces must assume security, in 2014, if the Afghan government and people so require, US Vice President Joe Biden said today in Kabul.
"If the Afghan people want it, the US is prepared and will not leave in 2014. We hope to give the Afghan forces the ability to maintain security, but we will not leave if you do not want us to," Biden told the press little. before leaving Kabul after a brief surprise visit to the Asian country.
Accompanied by the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, with whom he had previously met at the presidential palace in Kabul, the US vice president recalled that for the US it is a "crucial objective" to achieve "a stable and sovereign Afghanistan that is not a haven for terrorists."
"We have the strategy and the resources to meet the goal of a stable and independent Afghanistan, capable of providing its own security," Biden said.
After having deployed throughout 2010 a series of reinforcements to promote the resolution of the conflict, the international troops, led by the United States, plan to gradually withdraw next July and transfer the responsibility of security to the Army and Police of the Central Asian country.
According to the roadmap, the Afghan forces should have fully assumed this responsibility in 2014, although NATO has guaranteed that it will maintain a certain presence after that date.
With the intensification of offensives against insurgents, the past year was the deadliest for foreign troops (711 soldiers killed) since the US invasion and the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001.
Biden applauded the progress made by international and Afghan troops on the battlefield in recent months in his appearance before the press.
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''FACT — This would have NEVER happened under Trump’s watch. EVER! #Afghanistan''