The United Arab Emirates said on Wednesday that it is hosting Afghan President Ashraf Ghani “on humanitarian grounds” after he fled his country amid the Taliban’s takeover.
A brief statement said the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation can confirm that the UAE has welcomed President Ashraf Ghani and his family into the country on humanitarian grounds.
Ghani fled Afghanistan on Sunday as the Taliban reached Kabul, saying he was doing so to avoid bloodshed.
In the meantime, the French military is taking people out of Kabul on military planes to Abu Dhabi, from where they are to be flown on passenger aircraft to Paris. A first contingent of 41 French and foreign nationals arrived in France on Tuesday.
President Emmanuel Macron said in a tweet, nearly 200 Afghans who worked for France or who are under threat have just been evacuated from Kabul, as well as French and foreign nationals, adding that the operations would continue.
The French foreign ministry said 216 people were on board the flight, including 25 French, 184 Afghans “from civil society in need of protection” as well as seven other foreign nationals.
It said that this operation meant that most people, both of French and Afghan nationality, who had taken refuge at the French embassy in Kabul, had now been evacuated. The French embassy is now working out of the airport.
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