Posted on 08/13/2021 10:17:47 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Germany will reduce the number of staff at its Kabul embassy to the “absolute minimum,” Foreign Minister Heiko Mass said Friday as Taliban forces set their sights on the Afghan capital.
The announcement came as more German lawmakers appeal for quick action to get staff out of Afghanistan. Senior Christian Democratic Union (CDU) lawmaker Norbert Röttgen urged the German authorities to “not abandon a single local employee” in danger of “torture and death.”
It also comes as the German Federation of Journalists asked for Afghan journalists to be granted residence.
After the Taliban took the second and third largest cities in Afghanistan, Germany is looking to safeguard its citizens and embassy staff on the ground in the war-torn country’s capital city.
“We will reduce personnel of the German embassy in Kabul in the coming days to the operative absolute minimum,” Maas told journalists.
“We will send a crisis support team to Kabul to help us boost security precautions,” the foreign minister added. […]
In an interview with German news magazine Der Spiegel, Röttgen said “millions” of refugees could now be forced to leave Afghanistan. Politicians believe that many of them could try to find their way to Europe. …
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They will all be out tomorrow.
The primary purpose of having an embassy in another country is to
provide assistance to citizens who travel to or live in the host country.
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How many Germans travel to or live in Afghanistan?
Through the entire length of Iran to Turkey, then across to Greece? It would be quite a trip. Gotta get those international NGO's on it.
5,500 km, or 91 days (12 hours per day of hiking). Course, all those fences are up along the eastern European side.
Last one to leave, turn off the lights.
Fools. Why would you leave anyone behind?
The western powers don’t get it. The Taliban are 6th century thinkers where modern norms and customs regarding diplomatic relations don’t exist. Any personnel left after the evacuation will be killed.
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