The United States has taken control of Afghanistan's embassy in Washington and the country's consulates in New York and Beverly Hills, California, the State Department said Tuesday.
The State Department said that it had assumed 바카라sole responsibility바카라 for the security and maintenance of the diplomatic missions effective on Monday and would bar anyone from entering them without its permission until further notice.
The move came after the department determined that the embassy and consulates had 바카라formally ceased conducting diplomatic and consular activities in the United States" at noon on May 16.
The U.S. does not recognise the new Taliban government in Afghanistan, which took power last year after the withdrawal of American and allied troops, and does not have formal diplomatic relations with the country.
바카라Until further notice, the Department of State's Office of Foreign Missions has assumed sole responsibility for ensuring the protection and preservation of the property of the referenced missions, including but not limited to all real and tangible property, furnishings, archives, and financial assets of the Afghan Embassy or its consular posts in the United States,바카라 the department said in a notice to be published Wednesday in the Federal Register.
The missions were identified as the Afghan embassy in Washington, and consular posts in Little Neck, New York, and Beverly Hills, California.
The department noted Afghanistan had not requested a third country to serve as a 바카라protecting power바카라 for its facilities or interests in the U.S. Since Washington closed its embassy in Kabul, Qatar has served as the U.S. protecting power in Afghanistan.
