Soon, more local employees with families and people on the Swedish list can leave Afghanistan.
On Monday evening, another large group of people managed to get into the airport while waiting to be evacuated.
- They have not left the country yet, but I hope it will be a successful evacuation.
First you have to get them into the airport and then into the plane.
In the last week, many planes have been half full because they have not received permission to pick up people or that they have not entered the airport, says Ann Linde.
Swedes can stay
On Monday, it was also clear that 55 people had left Afghanistan and a total of 225 people have now been evacuated from the country.
According to Ann Linde, Sweden will be able to get all local employees out of the embassy and their families before August 31, when the United States, according to an agreement with the Taliban, must leave the country.
On the other hand, the time to get everyone on the Swedish list, people with Swedish citizenship or a residence permit in Sweden, will be more difficult.
- I'm not sure we'll make it.
We do everything we can to see how many we can get into the airport before it closes, says Ann Linde.
She points out that since 2016 there has been a dissuasion from all trips to Afghanistan, and that from 5 August there has been a call for Swedes to return home.
No Swedish help if the US leaves
If the United States, with its 6,000 troops on site, chooses to leave Afghanistan on August 31, there will be no opportunity for continued Swedish operations in the country.
A decision by President Joe Biden to extend the deadline may come on Tuesday.
But if the United States should extend its presence to open up for more evacuations, Ann Linde does not want to answer.
- Going into the military and sending troops to a country means risks of soldiers dying. It is a very difficult decision and each country must make that decision on its own. So we can not tell another country that you should do this or that, says Linde.