One day after President Joe Biden’s announcement to withdraw all U.S. soldiers from Afghanistan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a surprise visit to the country to sell Afghan leaders on the plan to conclude the United States’s longest-running war later this year.

Blinken attended a meeting with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday after the decision was announced to withdraw the remaining 2,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, the Associated Press reported.