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The decision was taken even before the attacks at the Kabul airport took place on Thursday. August 27 was the date managed by the Government to end its evacuation operation in Afghanistan. Public details were avoided for security reasons. "Mission accomplished", assured Pedro Sánchez from La Moncloa. But it was not the last mission. Spain continues to study alternative ways to continue evacuating Afghan citizens who have collaborated with Spain.



"Spain is not going to leave the Afghan people alone," the Prime Minister said just a few hours after the last two planes sent by Spain had taken off from Kabul.

"We remain committed to defending human rights, seeking ways to continue evacuating people who have collaborated with our country and the allied countries."

According to provisional data managed by the Executive, Spain has evacuated 2,206 people from Kabul, of which 1,671 are from the Spanish contingent;

333 of the European Union;

131 from the US;

50 from NATO and 21 from Portugal.

No data is handled on people who have not been evacuated.

The chief executive has avoided giving details about these evacuation routes that are being studied.

The strategy, as up to now, is to work with caution and discretion and only announce things when it is known that there is no danger to the people involved.

"We are going to work slowly, discreetly. We are already thinking about how we can articulate an operation to continue removing Afghans who we have not been able to evacuate these days."

The departure of the United States from Afghanistan, to which Joe Biden has set a date - August 31 - complicates any type of action or mission.

Hence, many European countries have asked the US president to review his calendar, without any success so far.

Sánchez believes that what happened in the last hours in Kabul will have geopolitical and migratory consequences, hence he asks the countries of the European Union to act in a joint and coordinated manner.

That is, that decisions are not made in isolation or unilaterally.

For example, in the last hours Germany said it had reached an agreement with the Taliban so that it could continue to evacuate citizens on commercial flights beyond August 31.

Call on the EU to act together

"We must reflect on the measures to be taken," pointed out Sánchez, who has ruled out calling Pablo Casado, arguing that the communication has been public and transparent by the Government these days. "We must be respectful of international legality and United Nations mandates. I call for the European Union to go hand in hand in a response that we must give to the Afghan people. We must deal with refugees, especially refugee women, and we must do it together ".

Aid to Afghan citizens is not the only unfinished business for the West.

So is the fight against terrorism involving attacks such as those that occurred this Thursday at the Kabul airport.

"Spain will work with all allied countries to combat terror and guarantee security within the borders of Afghanistan, but also outside."

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