"The gravity of the situation in Afghanistan makes an even closer connection with our allies inevitable, in order to define a common strategy in favor of the Afghan people and the achievements that have matured so far".
This was stated
by Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio at the Meeting of CL.
"Italy, present with the consul and a nucleus of soldiers at the Kabul airport, continues to work to rescue collaborators and activists who want to leave the country. We have so far evacuated about 1,600 Afghan civilians, our former collaborators. and their families.
The plan is to transfer about 2,500 of them to Italy ", added the minister
"The demand for reception of refugees and migrants of Afghan origin is destined to increase. It is necessary and urgent to develop a common response together with the European Union, in conjunction with the partners of the region", Di Maio affirms, adding that
" Italy is fighting to ensure that international organizations are guaranteed full humanitarian access to the country ".
Terrorism "must not return to lurk in Afghanistan. It will be essential, in this sense, that the international community also exercises strengthened action to combat drug trafficking and to eliminate opium production in Afghanistan. We will have to build alliances and involve a plurality of countries around these common objectives: especially those of the region, which share this concern, as well as Russia and China, essential players in this scenario ".
"Afghanistan in the last twenty years has represented one of the main challenges for the multilateral system - he underlined -
. Despite 20 years of presence and investment in the country by a vast international coalition, the UN, NATO and the EU, the The sudden collapse of the Afghan government and its institutions - a collapse that escaped the foresight of the international community - places us in front of a dramatic scenario. international".