State Department spokesman Ned Price said Friday that several countries are working with the United States to help transit and relocating at-risk Americans and Afghans fleeing Afghanistan.
Price noted that Bahrain, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Qatar, Tajikistan, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and Uzbekistan will either either begin “transiting Americans, or in some other circumstances, for their territories to security “.
He also said several countries had “made generous offers on the relocation efforts of Afghans at risk.” These countries include Albania, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Chile, Kosovo, Northern Macedonia, Mexico, Poland, Qatar, Rwanda, Ukraine and Uganda.
The UAE announced on Friday that it would also host 5,000 Afghans temporarily following the US request
“The United Arab Emirates is always looking for peaceful and multilateral solutions and is ready to continue its work alongside its international partners to advance efforts to help the Afghan people in this time of uncertainty,” said Sultan Mohammed Al Shamsi. with the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Affairs. Cooperation said in a statement.
Price said about 13,000 people have been evacuated by the U.S. since Saturday, and that the military has evacuated 5,700 people in the past 24 hours.
Evacuation flights had been temporarily halted on Friday as the evacuated Qatar processing center had reached full capacity, although flights resumed after eight hours as officials tried to find countries that could receive evacuation flights from Afghanistan.
Afghans and Americans want to leave the country quickly as anxieties grow amid new Taliban rule. Surprising images from earlier this week showed Afghans clinging to a U.S. military plane in an effort to leave the country.
President Biden
Joe Biden: Texas House Dems puts an end to election reform. The Taliban are calling on Afghan Muslim leaders to urge unity amid protests. he acknowledged on Friday during a speech that the evacuation process from Afghanistan posed challenges and said he could not guarantee the results of the US effort.
“Don’t be fooled, this evacuation mission is dangerous. It involves risks to our armed forces and is carried out in difficult circumstances. I can’t promise what the end result will be or what it will be without risk of loss, ”Biden said.
However, the president promised that evacuation flights would not stop until Americans and Afghans with special immigrant visas left the country.