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15 Aug, 9 tweets, 3 min read
#Afghanistan | French minister for Foreign Affairs just issued a statement on the situation in #Kabul. A short 🧵 on what France is doing to help its citizens and the Afghan people despite the dire circumstances 👇
1/ First, France has relocated its Embassy (@AmbassadeKaboul) to the Kabul airport, which will "remain operational and active" in order to evacuate all French citizens. Our Ambassador @david_martinon just posted a video of him leaving the Green Zone:

2/ These operations of evacuation of French nationals have been underway for weeks. A special flight was chartered as early as July 16.

rfi.fr/en/internation…
3/ Since May, France has also evacuated more than 600 Afghans, including their families, who worked for the 🇫🇷 Embassy.

Since 2013, France has also sought to welcome former locally-recruited civilian personnel of our armed forces and their families, i.e. more than 1,350 Afghans.
4/ France also intends to do "its utmost" to continue to protect Afghan civil society figures, rights defenders, artists and journalists who are particularly threatened because of their commitment.
According to the MFA statement, "every effort is being made to maintain the capacity to issue visas from Kabul airport, including through a reinforcement mission, and to allow their evacuation. France is committed to solidarity with all those who defend freedom".
5/ Finally, the 🇫🇷 DoD will deploy additional soldiers and air assets to its basis in the United Arab Emirates in the next few hours, so that the first evacuations to Abu Dhabi can begin.
6/ On a more personal note, I am grateful today for the incredible professionalism and bravery of my colleagues in Kabul which continue to perform their mission despite the circumstances.
Only one week ago, they were receiving vaccine doses for the Afghan people in this same airport ... [End]

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