Washington:
The United States has no plans to resume military-led evacuation flights from Afghanistan, but is working to guarantee that the current charter flights turn into more frequent, the State Department mentioned on Thursday.
“The idea that we’re restarting evacuation flights, what we had prior to Aug. 31, is not accurate,” State Department spokesperson Ned Price mentioned in a briefing. The Wall Street Journal earlier reported that Washington would restart evacuation flights just before the finish of the year, citing an unidentified State Department official.
“The charter flights have been routine,” Price mentioned. “Our goal is to make them even more routine to lend a degree of automaticity to these operations so that we can facilitate the departure of Americans, of lawful permanent residents and others.”
The United States’ two decades-lengthy occupation of Afghanistan culminated in a hastily organized airlift in August that saw more than 124,000 civilians such as Americans, Afghans and other individuals evacuated as the Taliban took more than. But thousands of other U.S.-allied Afghans at threat of Taliban persecution have been left behind.
President Joe Biden and other individuals in his administration have vowed to continue efforts to get them out.
A handful of hundred individuals have been evacuated on charter flights, organized by groups of veterans, and some facilitated by the United States. Washington has also assisted some individuals to depart Afghanistan through overland routes.
Price added that due to the fact Aug. 31, the United States has facilitated the departure of 129 U.S. citizens and 115 lawful permanent residents.
“Our goal is to see to it that working with our partners that these flights become even more of a regular occurrence,” he mentioned.
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