France and the United Kingdom plan to submit an emergency resolution to the UN Security Council on Monday, calling for Taliban The French president has expressed support for the civilian safety zone at Kabul Airport, which will allow those who want to leave the country to continue to evacuate from the air.
“What we are trying to do is to be able to organize targeted humanitarian operations for evacuation without going through the military airport in Kabul,” Emmanuel Macron (Emmanuel Macron) Tell Dimanche Daily.
“This is about protecting these threatened Afghans and letting them leave the country in the next few days or weeks. We will see if this can be done through the capital’s civilian airport or through neighboring countries.”
He said that such a deal would be a prerequisite for establishing future Western relations with the Taliban.
Sunday newspaper To quote Macron, Britain supports the resolution, although London has not publicly discussed any such efforts. Whitehall sources downplayed the French president’s comments, saying the plan outlined in the interview was “too early”.
“We are not there yet,” the source said.
Macron says there are still thousands of people in France Afghanistan The people it wants to protect. The Taliban have expressed in recent days that they want to prevent more Afghans from leaving the country.
In his speech before heading to Iraq this weekend, he said that the UN resolution “will United Nations Taking action in emergency situations, the most important thing is to enable everyone to take on their responsibilities and enable the international community to maintain pressure on the Taliban.”
“Our resolution proposal aims to establish a safe zone in Kabul under the control of the United Nations, which will allow humanitarian operations to continue,” he said.
It is not clear whether Russia or China will accept the resolution or regard it as an infringement of Afghanistan’s sovereignty.
Turkey has been negotiating with the Taliban and the United States to assume military responsibility for the airport, but after the Taliban stated that they would not accept the Turkish army remaining on its territory, Turkey abandoned the plan.
Macron did not try to conceal that the evacuation operation has not been completed. “We still have thousands of Afghans on our list who we want to protect. They are in danger because of their promises-magistrates, artists, intellectuals-and many others who have been reported by relatives and told that they are in danger. People in danger,” he said.
The French president made a series of sharp remarks to the United States, pointing out that Joe Biden has not accepted many refugees from Afghanistan to the United States, but sent them to processing centers in countries as far away as Uganda and Albania.
He said that France “has been working hard in the past few years to prevent the United States or other allies in the region from disengaging too cruelly”, adding that the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan may have a negative impact on Iraq and Syria.
“As we have seen in Afghanistan, the risk now is to give people the impression that they are conditional allies of the West. When their agenda changes, they will abandon these allies. This is not our situation. France will not give up and It’s the people who fight side by side. For example, we continue to support the Syrian opposition — I also received some of its components at the beginning of the summer — and freedom fighters, especially the Kurdish freedom fighters, who joined us against Daesh [Islamic State]”.
He added that the United States has shifted its “strategic agenda” to the Asia-Pacific region because American middle-class voters “don’t understand why [Washington] Send soldiers to die at the end of the world”.
He concluded: “Therefore, in the face of instability in our community, we must play our role more.”
