Dubai:
The United Arab Emirates has agreed to host 5,000 Afghan nationals to be evacuated from their nation for 10 days on their way to a third nation at the request of the United States, the Gulf Arab state’s foreign ministry stated on Friday.
“The evacuees will travel to the UAE from the Afghan capital of Kabul on U.S. aircraft in the coming days,” the ministry stated in a statement carried by state news agency WAM.
The foreign ministry told Reuters they would be hosted for 10 days.
The UAE has so far facilitated the evacuation of 8,500 people today from Afghanistan on its aircraft and by means of its airports, it stated.
The announcement came immediately after U.S. officials told Reuters Washington was anticipated to announce that nations in Europe and the Middle East have agreed to temporarily shelter people today evacuated from Kabul as its base in Qatar reached capacity.
A Qatari official told Reuters the Gulf Arab state was “continuing our efforts to evacuate people from Afghanistan. Additional flights are scheduled during the upcoming days.”
Bahrain will enable planes carrying evacuees to quit more than in the kingdom as portion of efforts to help rescue operations in Afghanistan, the Bahraini foreign ministry stated in a statement on Friday.
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