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"The best tribute we can do to our deceased men and women in Afghanistan is to bring as much of the world as we can. Leave no one behind." Defense Minister Margarita Robles pledged this Sunday to evacuate from Kabul all Afghans who have collaborated with Spain in Afghanistan. A complex task and for which the Government is taking steps with the aim of expanding the frequency of flights to the country in the coming days, using Dubai as a stopover.

This increased frequency of flights will largely depend on the capacities of the Kabul airport, which for a week has had a demand much higher than usual and only one operational runway.

But it is not the only problem.

About 20,000 people have been crowding around the airfield for days trying to flee from the Taliban regime.

Many of them have no relation to any other country, but are waiting in the hope of being admitted to a plane.

The collaborators of Spain and their families wave, as a signal, red and yellow handkerchiefs and garments while shouting the name of the country with the aim of, among the crowd, being spotted by the Spanish operative sent to the place: "Spain! Spain! "

"That they do not give up, that they wait at the doors that they are told," Robles asked the Afghans who remain in Kabul.

"It is very emotional to see them shouting Spain, Spain! With the Spanish flag and wanting to enter" at the airport, said the minister, notably emotional, during her visit this Sunday to the Torrejón air base in Madrid, where two new flights arrived with 177 passengers on board: 110 collaborators from Spain and another 67 cooperators from the North American forces.

The Spanish device

The situation in the Afghan capital, he said, is "chaotic", and the Army's efforts are "relentless."

Robles highlighted the number of complete families and children that come to Torrejón.

Among the passengers who will land in the next few hours are two women who are "about" to give birth, so the medical team deployed in Kabul, Dubai and aboard the A-400M with which they are carried out has been reinforced. evacuations.

Meanwhile, the operation that coordinates the departure of Spanish collaborators in the midst of the chaos at the airport continues to work in Kabul.

A device made up of four diplomats, a score of police officers from the Special Operations Group (GEO) and the Police Intervention Unit (UIP), in addition to 110 military personnel.

The Defense Minister highlighted and praised the "sacrifice, selflessness and efficiency" of the Armed Forces and their work in the face of this "dramatic situation" in Afghanistan after the collapse of the democratic regime. An operation in which the humanitarian role that the Spanish Army is playing has allowed Spain to consolidate itself as the main gateway for Afghan refugees and collaborators from other countries at the European level. For reasons of "security", Robles justified that in recent days the Executive has not "appeared much" or that he has done so in a "limited" way.

The opposition does not buy this argument and requests the appearance of the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, in the Congress of Deputies to detail Spain's plan in this crisis.

The president of the Committee on Rights and Guarantees of the Popular Party, Andrea Levy, who this Sunday stressed her approval of how "Spain is responding" to the crisis, asked Sánchez to leave "the photos and tweets" and go to the Lower House to respond to the rest of the parliamentary groups on the evacuation protocol and other issues that already mark the beginning of the political course, such as the protocol for the return of unaccompanied Moroccan minors from Ceuta or the historic rise in the price of electricity.

The PP demands explanations from Sánchez

"A more crisis, we have had a worse government," Levy considered the absence of Sánchez in recent weeks, when these issues have marked the present. "We celebrate that Pedro Sánchez has reappeared and has gone from his vacation in La Mareta to La Moncloa in that appearance on Saturday, but we ask him to walk a few more steps towards the Congress of Deputies, which is where he must face and give explanations "Levy reproached. "You can't just have phrases and proclamations that look good at an appearance without a strategy."

The phone call between Sánchez and the US president, Joe Biden, was positively received by the

popular

, who have stressed that Spain's commitment to Afghanistan is a "matter of state", so they celebrated that, after almost a week of silence , the Executive has overcome that "initial laziness".

"I will always like that Spain is in the forefront of all countries and that the president of the United States takes us into account," said the Minister of Education and spokesman for the Government of the Community of Madrid,

Enrique Ossorio

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