Germany gathered to take up to 40 thousand people escaped from Afghanistan. This was stated by the Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel during a press conference with Austrian counterpart Sebastian Kurzet, reports Spiegel.
The head of the German government stressed that the country is ready to take not only Afghan employees of the Bundeswehr and Foreign Ministry, but also other citizens of Afghanistan who need to be asylum after the Taliban movement came to power (prohibited in Russia as terrorist) .
According to Merkel, the German authorities are ready to evacuate up to 40 thousand people, but it is necessary to find out, “how many of them will really want to leave Afghanistan” – and this will depend on how the conditions in the country will arrange the Taliban, and on how well Western countries will lead with them negotiations.
Earlier at the end of August, the Special Representative of the President of Russia in Afghanistan, Director of the Second Asian Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Zamir Kabulov warned that among refugees from Afghanistan, terrorists and radicals may be.