Dutch Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag has resigned over her handling of the Afghan evacuation crisis last month. She is the first Western government official to step down over the chaos that followed the Taliban takeover. Dutch MPs had passed a motion of censure against her, saying the government was too slow to respond and left behind many Afghans who should have been able to flee. Ms Kaag said she stood by her actions but accepted the MPs’ verdict. She acknowledged the government had been slow and muddled when reacting to warnings about a surge of the Taliban. The Netherlands managed to evacuate around 2,000 people from Afghanistan in the last two weeks of August.
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