This was achieved by means of United Nations structures and on the basis of UN resolutions, but primarily within the framework of the operations organised and led by NATO, in which a number of other states took part alongside the members of NATO. From the beginning, Germany’s engagement was closely integrated into that of the international community of states. For two decades, Germany was engaged in Afghanistan within the framework of various operations and missions, mandated by the Bundestag and by Cabinet decision, to fight terrorism and stabilise the country, where the then ruling Taliban had harboured the responsible terrorist organisation, al-Qaeda. Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder spoke in the Bundestag assuring the United States of Germany’s unlimited solidarity Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Joschka Fischer emphasised that, when serious crimes were committed, action had to be taken, „including in world domestic policy“. In response to the attack by the terrorist organisation al-Qaeda on the United States of America, the NATO mutual-defence clause was invoked for the first time. No other violent incident between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Russian invasion of Ukraine has had a greater impact on the foreign, security and development policy of the Federal Republic of Germany than the terrorist attacks on the United States more than 20 years ago. The terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 marked a major turning point in Germany’s international crisis management. The German Bundestag hereby establishes a Study Commission on lessons from Afghanistan for Germany’s comprehensive international engagement in the future. The Bundestag is requested to adopt the following motion: Tabled by the SPD, CDU/CSU, Alliance 90/The Greens and FDP parliamentary groupsĮstablishment of a Study Commission on lessons from Afghanistan for Germany’s comprehensive international engagement in the future

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