Kabul At least five dead at the airport
Afghanistan The new Taliban government: from Guantanamo to the presidential palace
Diplomacy Macron asks to prevent Afghanistan from becoming "an oasis for terrorists"
Foreign Ministry confirmed this Monday that the staff of the Spanish
embassy in Afghanistan
(a dozen) and former collaborators of the mission in the country are at the Kabul airport waiting to be rescued. In total,
"several hundred people"
, according to diplomatic sources, have been included in the list of the evacuation operation, which is already underway. This Monday night
the first military transport plane to Dubai will
take off from
Zaragoza
and the departure of the second, an A400M, was scheduled for Tuesday morning, Defense and Foreign Affairs report in a joint statement.
Also
France or the Netherlands
rushed to transfer their staff from the embassies to the airport and
Denmark, Italy or Sweden are
working to speed up repatriation.
The United Kingdom will
deploy up to 600 soldiers to ensure that the operation is carried out and
France
has increased its presence in the
United Arab Emirates
to coordinate repatriations.
Also
Germany
is to ensure the transfer of their nationals.
"We are not going to risk our people falling into the hands of the Taliban," said German Foreign Minister
Heiko Mass.
to the daily Bild, referring to the nearly two thousand people who have worked for Germany in Afghanistan.
EU foreign ministers will meet on Tuesday and decide what to do with local staff who worked for embassies and the EU itself and who face possible reprisals.
The power to
issue humanitarian visas is held by
the member states, and Germany, Spain or France have already started the process.
France, in addition to a program to
remove 600 collaborators
, calls "to do everything possible to continue protecting members of Afghan civil society, rights defenders, artists and journalists who are in particular danger due to their activities."
The other debate in the EU concerns a possible wave of refugees.
Afghans account for
10.6% of asylum claims
, but a notable percentage ended up being rejected.
In fact, half a dozen countries asked a week ago not to stop the forced expulsions of Afghans whose request had been denied, despite the deterioration of the situation in their country.
Although many experts reject the repetition of the European collapse in 2015 due to the war in Syria, the ghosts of that management resurrect in the speeches.
Merkel's replacement in the CDU,
Armin Laschet
, has already warned: "We cannot allow 2015 to repeat itself."
Then, Merkel opted for open doors that would be very conflictive in the electoral period that Germany faces.
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