Austria's conservative Chancellor Sebastian Kurz opposes taking in any more people fleeing Afghanistan now that the Taliban have seized power, he said in remarks published on Sunday.
"I am clearly opposed to us now voluntarily taking in more people and that will not happen during my chancellorship," Kurz said in an interview with TV channel Puls 24. Excerpts of the interview were released before it was broadcast later on Sunday.
Austria is also a neutral country and not a member of NATO. It sent only a very small number of troops to Afghanistan. NATO'slists it as having sent 16 troops for the Resolute Support Mission, an effort to train and advise the Afghan security forces. "Austria has made a disproportionately large contribution," he added, referring to the large number of Afghan refugees and asylum seekers already in the country.
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