The UK ambassador to Afghanistan says the time has come to end air transport

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A British Royal Airforce Voyager aircraft carrying members of the British Armed Forces 16th Air Assault Brigade arrives in Brize Norton, Great Britain on 28 August 2021. Alastair Grant / Pool via REUTERS

LONDON, Aug. 28 (Reuters) – Britain’s ambassador to Afghanistan, Laurie Bristow, said on Saturday it was time to end an airlift that had evacuated nearly 15,000 Afghan and British citizens during the last two weeks.

“It is time to close this phase of the operation, but we have not forgotten the people who have yet to leave and we will do our best to help them,” he said in a statement at Kabul airport released by the ministry. British exteriors.

Report by David Milliken; Edited by Angus MacSwan

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