Deportations in Afghanistan: Federal Foreign Office changes situation report - refusal of the Bundeswehr mission

In Afghanistan the situation is worsening dramatically.

The Federal Foreign Office reacts.

Meanwhile, the Bundeswehr refuses to return to the country.

Berlin - The political situation in Afghanistan is currently extremely tense.

The advance of the Taliban is causing great problems for the Afghan government.

Parts of the population fear for their safety.

The Taliban now control large parts of Afghanistan, taking six provincial capitals within a few days.

The current situation report by the Federal Foreign Office in Germany painted a different picture.

Critics complained that the deterioration in the security situation after the withdrawal of the international troops was not adequately depicted.

Neither are the conquests of the radical Islamic Taliban, which are advancing almost daily.

Deportations in Afghanistan: Foreign Office wants to update situation report

Deportations to Afghanistan sparked this debate.

The federal government has now reacted and wants to revise its assessments.

A spokeswoman for the Foreign Ministry stated on Monday that “an ad hoc update of the situation report” was being prepared.

There was no comment on when this should be published.

With regard to asylum applications and deportations, the situation reports of the Federal Foreign Office on the countries concerned form the basis.

On this basis, a decision is made as to whether asylum is granted or a deportation initiated.

In the previous week, a planned deportation flight with six Afghans was canceled without further ado because of a Taliban attack in Kabul.

Former Bundeswehr helpers flown in from Afghanistan with family members

Nevertheless, the federal government wants to hold on to deportations to Afghanistan.

In the meantime, the Afghan government had appealed to European countries to refrain from deportations to their country until further notice.

In the meantime, almost 1,700 people who had supported the Bundeswehr in the Hindu Kush were allowed to travel to Germany with their family members from Afghanistan.

It was about 333 former local employees and 1342 relatives, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Defense on Monday in Berlin.

The former Bundeswehr auxiliaries are threatened with acts of revenge by the Taliban.

The Afghans who have entered Germany only receive temporary residence permits in Germany.

Afghanistan: Ministry of Defense rejects another Bundeswehr deployment

It is more than questionable whether the situation in Afghanistan will improve in the near future. CDU politician Norbert Röttgen recently even brought into play a new military deployment with the participation of the Bundeswehr in order to stop the advance of the Taliban. "So if there are military capabilities of the Europeans, including the Germans, that are needed now, then we should make them available," said Röttgen of the

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

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A spokesman for the Federal Ministry of Defense has now clearly rejected this. For such a scenario, a political majority in this country is “not recognizable”, said ministry spokesman Arne Collatz. Therefore, he does not assume "that one month after the withdrawal of the German forces we should think about going back into a combat mission there," added Collatz.

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