Albania and Kosovo at the request of the United States will temporarily take refugees from Afghanistan who requested an American visa – among them there are many Afghans who collaborated with American troops in the country, reports Reuters agency.
“We will not give up, but not because we asked us to our greatest ally, but because we are Albania,” the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said on this occasion. The president of the partially recognized Republic of Kosovo Vizos Osmani emphasized that the Kosovo authorities agreed to it “without any thoughtful.”
According to the agency, negotiations on the placement of refugees in the territory of the Albanian states of the US President Joe Bayiden led since the middle of the last month.
Earlier on August 16, it was reported that hundreds of Afghan citizens went to the runway of the airport in Kabul, trying to get into the aircraft flying out of the country. American troops, controlled airport, opened fire: The American side declares that they were limited to the warning shots in the air, but at least five dead are known. Some of the Afghans tied themselves to the aircraft, trying to fly abroad.
Before that, the same day it became known that the US State Department published a document in which more than 60 states are required to ensure safe departure for foreigners and those residents of Afghanistan, which they want to leave the country. The head of the Ministry of Defense of Great Britain Ben Wallace warned that many countries of the world in connection with this situation awaits influx of refugees.
August 15 “Taliban” (a terrorist organization prohibited in Russia) announced that he controls the territory of Afghanistan after his militants entered Kabul. President Ashraf Gani left the country.