Denmark will offer Afghans who worked for it to join its territory in order to escape possible reprisals from the Taliban after the end of the almost complete withdrawal of international troops and given the fighting there.
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We have a common responsibility to help these Afghans who are today threatened because of their links and their contribution to Denmark's engagement in Afghanistan,
" the Danish Foreign Ministry said in a statement late Wednesday, noting that the security situation in their country was "
serious
".
45 people involved
Afghans currently employed by the Danish Embassy in Kabul, having worked there for the past two years or having been employed by the Danish armed forces will be offered evacuation to Denmark and a two-year temporary residence permit.
It is about 45 people.
This Scandinavian kingdom is not the first Western country to offer to host locally recruited Afghans.
At the end of July, a first group of Afghans who had worked for the Americans had arrived in the United States.
Neighboring Sweden is considering how to accommodate its Afghan employees.
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Alongside the Belgian, Greek and Austrian governments, Denmark had yet last week asked the European Commission to maintain the possibility of expelling Afghan migrants who have been refused asylum, despite a call from Kabul to stop these expulsions.
Germany and the Netherlands, which had signed this appeal, finally did an about-face and voted in favor of the suspension of the evictions.