The UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said in a statement on the 20th local time, at the request of the United States, the United Arab Emirates agreed to temporarily accept 5,000 Afghan people evacuated from the Afghan capital Kabul, after which they will be sent to other countries as planned. The statement said that in the coming days, evacuees will take the United States evacuation flights from Kabul to the United Arab Emirates.
The UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation said in a statement that the UAE had recently provided domestic airports as transits to assist dozens of evacuation flights and had used its aircraft and airports to evacuate some 8,500 foreign nationals from Afghanistan.
Mohammed Shamsi, Assistant Minister for International Development at the UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, said the UAE has been committed to finding a multilateral solution to the situation in Afghanistan and hopes to work with international partners to step up assistance to the Afghan people in this uncertain period.
