US PRESENT Under the United Nations Linda Thomas Greenfield stated that the US friends and allies “do not hang on airplanes”, referring to the death of people during evacuation at the Kabul airport. She told about it in an interview with MSNBC, RIA Novosti reports.
She commented on what questions she was asked about analogy with Saigon in 1975, while evacuation from Afghanistan was “more disorderly and dangerous.” The diplomat stressed that now another time, the United States is building plans and take action, but the situation turned out to be unplanned.
“It’s difficult – I absolutely do not deny how difficult the situation is, but we are trying to take people, and our friends and allies do not hang on the aircraft,” Thomas Greenfield said. She added that “friends and allies” receive help and support, the question of the export of people is solved around the clock.
The leading program clarified, by whom the postprared considers people hung on airplanes at Kabul airport. The diplomat replied that I saw a message about hundreds of people in the air harbor and added that all the US was trying to help, but at the same time provide an ordered path for Afghans so that they could leave the country.
August 15 The Militants of the Radical Movement “Taliban” (prohibited in Russia) announced the establishment of control throughout Afghanistan. The Office received a temporary advice that will give the power of the Taliban. After that, hundreds of Afghans headed to Kabul International Airport for flight from the country.
They filled all the building, many ran out on the runway, having a lifting aircraft to the air. Some refugees clung to the chassis and fuselaces of aircraft, and after broke off when the planes were gaining height.