Regarding the situation in Afghanistan, the government decided to withdraw the Self-Defense Forces aircraft that had been dispatched to evacuate Japanese and others.
Due to the deterioration of public security, there is no prospect of safely evacuating Afghan people working at embassies, etc., and the policy is to persistently ask the Taliban for cooperation.
Following the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, the Minister of Defense Kishi decided on the 31st of last month to withdraw the Self-Defense Forces aircraft that had been dispatched to evacuate Japanese and others, and ordered the end of transportation activities.
The Self-Defense Forces aircraft transported one Japanese woman and 14 Afghans, and while officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs evaluated that they had achieved the most important goal of evacuating Japanese, Afghans working at embassies and international organizations. It was a pity that the evacuation of the was not realized.
The government plans to continue to provide support, saying that there are more than 500 Afghan people who wish to evacuate, but the reality is that there is no prospect of safe evacuation amid unstable local security conditions. ..
The government will carefully assess whether local security will improve in the future, and will persistently ask the Taliban for cooperation, such as by transferring the embassy function to Qatar, where the Taliban has a political office. It is a policy.