European Union foreign ministers will hold a crisis meeting on Tuesday to discuss the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, the bloc said on Monday, as countries race to evacuate citizens and local staff from a chaotic Kabul airport.
Five people were killed at the airport, witnesses said, as people tried to flee a day after Taliban insurgents seized the Afghan capital and declared the war against foreign and local forces over."Following latest developments in Afghanistan, and after intense contacts with partners in the past days and hours, I decided to convene an extraordinary VTC of EU foreign ministers tomorrow afternoon for a first assessment," the EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Twitter.
The European Union is also working with member states to find quick solutions for the relocation of local Afghan staff and their families to a safe place. The Commission does not give figures on the numbers of local Afghan staff employed for security reasons. Many EU member states are nervous that developments in Afghanistan could trigger a replay of Europe's 2015/16 migration crisis, when the chaotic arrival of more than a million people from the Middle East stretched security and welfare systems and fuelled support for far-right groups.
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