Senior State Dept official, in call w/journalists, says at least 85 US citizens & 79 legal permanent residents have departed Afghanistan with US govt assistance since Aug. 31. An additional number of US citizens & LPRs have departed Afghanistan in last month on private charters
He said they have another group of approximately 100 US citizens and LPRs ready to go in near future.
He said 2 biggest constraints to departures remain: *Taliban unpredictability regarding who is permitted to depart; *Absence of regular air service.
'Here at main state & embassies around region, many people continue to work this problem every day in pretty much every time zone'
'Here at main state & embassies around region, many people continue to work this problem every day in pretty much every time zone'
He said State is in regular communication with private groups organizing own charter flights to help their afghan friends depart. he said there the limitations are not just the aforementioned ones but also cases of when the people who get off the planes are not those on manifest
He said pretty much every charter that has gone to USG reception point,...there have been challenges with the population of passengers that deplane: we have had stowaways, ground crews that climbed on plane, and in some cases unaccompanied minors
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