A hundred countries announced on Sunday, August 29, that they had received a commitment from the Taliban that they would let all foreigners and Afghan nationals with a permit to settle elsewhere, even after the withdrawal of American troops, leave. scheduled for Tuesday.
“We have received assurances from the Taliban that all foreign nationals as well as any Afghan citizen with travel authorization issued by our countries will be allowed to travel safely and orderly to points of departure, and to leave the country “, wrote these countries, including the United States, Germany, France or the United Kingdom. China and Russia are not among the signatories.
“We are all committed to ensuring that our citizens, nationals or residents, employees, Afghans, who have worked with us, and those who are in danger, can continue to travel freely to destinations outside of Afghanistan”, they continue in a statement. “We will continue to deliver documents allowing travel to certain Afghans”, they say, saying they have “The commitment of the Taliban that they will be able to travel to our respective countries”. “We take note of the public statements of the Taliban confirming this agreement”, concludes the press release also signed by the European Union and the Atlantic Alliance.
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Commitments
Joe Biden’s National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said on Sunday that US nationals who have chosen to stay for now would not be “Not stuck in Afghanistan”. “We will make sure that we have a mechanism to get them out of the country if they want to return in the future”, he told Fox, claiming that “The Taliban have made commitments in this regard”.
French President Emmanuel Macron said in the 20 hours newspaper of the TF1 channel that discussions with the Taliban were continuing to allow all Afghans who so wish to leave their country after August 31. “We are going to build, with our partners, through negotiations with the Taliban which is now required, solutions to, over time, allow them to leave Kabul and Afghanistan and be protected”, he said.
“There are still several thousand women and men who remain to be protected”, recalled the Head of State, assuring that France, whose last evacuation flight landed Sunday afternoon in Paris with his board the Ambassador to Afghanistan, David Martinon, had “Do the maximum”. Coming back to the Franco-British proposal to “Safe zone” at Kabul airport, mentioned in an interview with Sunday newspaper, Emmanuel Macron stressed on TF1 that France would favor a “Pragmatic solution”.
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