There was at most room to evacuate 60 Afghan NGO staff as well as their families from Kabul, following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan’s capital.
That number was determined based on an understanding of the parliamentary parties, Erik Rasmussen, director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, tells Politiken.
– I do not want to go into individual cases, but for the NGOs it is closed, so to speak.
– There we simply do not accept more applications. There we have received the number who have been politically agreed that we should go to Denmark, we have already identified them, and the vast majority are out of Kabul already, says Erik Rasmussen to Politiken.
It thus goes against Foreign Minister Jeppe Kofod’s (S)’s reports that Denmark would rather evacuate one Afghan too much than one too little.
But according to the Unity List, such an agreement does not exist at all.
– I do not acknowledge that a framework was agreed in that way. The number of 50-60 was included in the negotiations as an estimate of how many we thought it was possible to get out of Afghanistan, says defense spokeswoman Eva Flyvholm to Politiken.
The Radicals’ foreign affairs spokesman, Martin Lidegaard, describes his view of the agreement as a “provisional ceiling that has since been extended”.
On 31 August, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that there were still 88 people left in Afghanistan who wanted to be evacuated.
These are 41 Afghan citizens and 47 people on the Danish list.
However, the possibility of Danish support for evacuation, after the international evacuation effort has ended, is “extremely limited and conceivably non-existent”.
People who still want to come to Denmark will therefore either have to stay in Afghanistan and wait for a possible resumption of civilian flights or try to leave Afghanistan in some other way, it reads further.
But these 88 people do not include NGO employees.
Source: The Nordic Page