Countries are working frantically to evacuate citizens, local staff and other vulnerable Afghans from Afghanistan as the Taliban cements control
Afghans crowd at the tarmac of Hamid Karzai International Kabul airport on August 16, 2021, to flee the country as the Taliban were in control of Afghanistan.
The nations' statement also says that roads, airports and border crossings must remain open, and that calm must be maintained.on Sunday to an undisclosed location, admitting defeat in the 20-year war started by the US after September 11, 2001. The first flight carrying British nationals has landed in the UK, he said on Monday, as it scrambled to evacuate diplomats, Afghan employees and their families from the chaotic airport in Kabul.
Wallace said one of the “biggest regrets” with the speed of the collapse of the Afghan government is that the timetable to remove Afghans and British people from the nation by August 31 had to be shortened.Chancellor Angela Merkel's government is planning to deploy soldiers to Afghanistan to help with the evacuation of German nationals and Afghans in danger from the Taliban, parliamentary sources said Monday.
In a statement, the ministry said it will deploy military reinforcements and air assets to the United Arab Emirates to carry out evacuations from Kabul to Abu Dhabi and onwards to Paris. The two A400 planes aim to pick up Spanish citizens who are still in Afghanistan, most of whom work for the embassy, as well as Afghan citizens who have assisted Spain over the years.
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said they had so far identified 37 Afghanis who had helped, but the number of evacuees would be in the hundreds once dependents and others were included.
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