Interior ministers from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance, who added that the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, held a convention on Wednesday to discuss how to coordinate and legal migration routes for Afghans fleeing the Taliban.
British officials said the biggest focus was on early security and logistical demands from the extraction of Afghan and other officials, primarily civilians, who have worked with Western security forces in NATO’s 20-year deployment to Afghanistan. The assembly came hours after French President Emmanuel Macron. he promised not to abandon Afghans who had served or joined forces in Afghanistan. But he added that Europe will have to “anticipate and protect itself from a wave of migrants. “”Europe alone cannot cope with the consequences of the situation,” he said. he said in a prime-time televised address that it provoked complaints from human rights teams and some leaders of the French leftist opposition. harassing Kabul airport and clinging to the wheels of evacuation planes.
Macron has been accused of giving in to the right-hand forward in next year’s presidential election, where he is expected to face a main challenge from Marine Le Pen, leader of the National Anti-Migrant Demonstration. “But why those words? convert, tactics and ice at the same time, back and forth, whatever the harsh circumstances?Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, former French minister to President François Hollande, said in a Twitter post.
Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, who is also facing elections, has followed another tone from Macron: He said he was “absolutely horrified” by the harrowing scenes in Kabul and vowed on Sunday to continue the evacuation alongside his allies. which will host 20,000 Afghans, this figure includes interpreters who have worked with the Canadian Forces. Canada’s House secretary told the Five Eyes assembly that the other 20,000 people were unlikely to be admitted in the next 12 months and that the duration would be longer, British officials told VOA.
Since April, Australia has admitted 430 Afghans who have worked with Australian forces as well as their families, but Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Wednesday that his government only plans to grant about 3,000 visas to Afghan applicants this year. Morrison said Australia does “there is no transparent plan ” to make a program comparable to that of Canada or Britain work. “Australia enters this territory. What we’re focusing on is here and now,” he said.
Earlier in the week, Morrison admitted that Australia would not save all of its former interpreters and staff involved in its 20-year project in Afghanistan. New Zealand officials said they would go to evacuate Afghans who worked with New Zealand’s deployments. and their families and know about two hundred eligible people. But he has not publicly committed to a committed program with other Afghan asylum seekers.
Greece has also made it clear that it is not prepared to settle for an influx of Afghan asylum seekers. Notis Mitarachi, Greece’s migration minister, said his counter-exit “will not and cannot be the gateway to Europe for refugees and migrants who might look to come to the European Union. ” The solution will have to be common, and it will have to be a European solution,” he told public television channel ERT.
But there is little sign of European unity on how to deal with Afghans who vote with their feet and flee their country, fearing what the Taliban regime’s long-term will hold. For weeks, the European Union’s national leaders, waiting for a migration crisis, have been discussing what to do, with some countries more willing to settle for refugees and others making plans to deter them from arriving.
Germany has indicated it is in a position to settle for an undetermined number of Afghans, but Armin Laschet, seen as Angela Merkel’s top likely successor as chancellor in next month’s federal election, said Berlin would not repeat the mistakes of its 2015 opening. Open-door politics, which, according to some of Merkel’s critics, encouraged waves of migration that shook Europe and upset the continent’s politics, fueling the rise of populist nationalist parties. and sub-Saharan Africa, settled in Europe in 2015-2016.
Asked at a news conference last month whether Germany accepts Afghan refugees, Merkel replied: “We can’t solve all those messes by welcoming everyone. “time to reflect on “a momentary stage” and “whether those affected can be brought to Europe in a controlled manner”.
In early August, when the Taliban offensive unfolded, a dozen EU countries said in Brussels they sought to continue deporting Afghan migrants whose asylum programs were rejected, despite the Taliban’s recent military successes. an organization that said they sought to continue forced evictions, but then subsidized and announced that they were postponing involuntary evictions of Afghans, joining Finland, Norway and Sweden, which announced that they were preventing any involuntary return.
British Home Secretary Priti Patel, who led the convening of the Five Eyes convention on Wednesday, suggested European neighbors offer safe haven to Afghans fleeing the Taliban and announced that Britain would grant asylum to 20,000 Afghan shelters. He said Britain would prioritize women and women and devotees and other minorities facing “tyranny and oppression” under the Taliban regime. “The British government will help those who have turned off the lights of their freedoms,” Patel wrote. He said That Europe will have to help. ” The UK is also doing everything it can to inspire other countries to help. Not only do we have to set an example, but we can’t do it alone,” he added.
But Patel was criticised on Wednesday through British opposition politicians and some lawmakers from the ruling Conservative Party for the figures the British government is accepting. The 20,000 will be spread over five years, with a maximum of 5,000 resettled this year. Patel said Britain “cannot accommodate another 20,000 people at once. “However, critics say more Afghans deserve to be admitted this year, in a different way, possibly not living next year. David Davis, a former Conservative minister, said Britain had a moral duty to do more “and said the British government deserves to take in” the north of 50,000 “refugees from Afghanistan. “
Tobias Ellwood, chairman of the UK Parliament’s Defence Committee, described Patel’s plan as “a woefully insufficient reaction given the magnitude of the refugee crisis we are about to face as a direct reaction to our withdrawal from Afghanistan. “served in Afghanistan, he told local media: “The government wants to have a review here and perceive the scale of the crisis we have created. “
EU foreign policy leader Josep Borrell called on the Taliban to allow safe and unhindered access to humanitarian aid to Afghan women, men and young people in need, adding thousands of internally displaced people. “The EU calls on the Taliban to respect their obligations under foreign humanitarian law in all circumstances,” he said. But Borrell stopped before making promises of migration on behalf of the bloc. “The EU will also stand up to Afghanistan’s neighbours to deal with the negative side effects, which are expected from a growing flow of refugees and migrants,” he said.