Summary State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf has said no timeline could be provided to end drone attacks.
WASHINGTON (Dunya News) - Briefing the newsmen in Washington, State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said that US has made significant progress against core al-Qaida by using drones as counterterrorism tools, but that as we make that progress the need to use these tools will, of course, be reduced.
She said that Secretary of State John Kerry has reinforced the changes that US expect to take place in the programme over time, but there is no exact timeline to provide. Obviously, a lot of this is driven by the situation on the ground, she said.
“The goal here is, of course, that as we have success against al-Qaida – which we’ve talked about a lot the success we’ve had in this region of the world against core al-Qaida – that the tool will obviously – we need to use this tactic less going forward, and that’s what the Secretary was referencing” she said.
“I have no exact timeline to provide. Again, the Secretary was making the point that we have made, as we’ve talked about, significant progress against core al-Qaida in this region, and that we will continue to do so – that they are a shadow of what they once were, and I think he was reinforcing that point”, she maintained.
