Canada will start with Taliban Ensure the safe exit of Canadian citizens and Afghanistan According to the Canadian Foreign Minister, the refugees tried to leave Kabul.
Marc Garneau confirmed in an interview that such negotiations will take place West Street District Mercedes Stephenson Sunday.
Garneau said the dialogue will be a multilateral dialogue with “many” countries in the coming days. According to him, the main “priority requirement” in the negotiations will be to allow Afghans to leave the country safely.
“This is something everyone agrees to, and as we move forward, we will establish the requirements for the Taliban,” Gano said.
“We don’t know how they will react to this, but this is the main focus of dialogue with the Taliban in the coming days.”
The second priority of the negotiations will involve the assistance of Qatar and Turkey, which will keep the Kabul airport open and restore it to a normal operating commercial airport after the military evacuation is completed.
As the negotiations progressed, the country’s diplomats scrambled to return the remaining Canadian citizens, permanent residents and vulnerable Afghans — including interpreters and their families — back to Canada.
Canada Officially ended its evacuation flight It brought back about 3,700 people from Afghanistan on Thursday, although it left behind some Canadian nationals and Afghan refugees that it promised to bring back.
The federal government will later acquire 500 seats on a US plane, although the current number of evacuation is far from the total number of 21,000 Afghans that Canada has promised to resettle.
The news of the potential Taliban negotiations came after weeks of chaos in the country that staged the longest war between the United States and Canada.
After the United States began its final withdrawal, Taliban forces moved quickly to conquer most of the country. Within a few days, the insurgent groups will emerge from their hiding places, conquer large tracts of land, sometimes without fighting, and eventually target the capital Kabul.
As the Taliban began to take over the airport, the U.S. gradually stopped the Afghan evacuation: officials
Islamic militants finally entered the capital on August 15. Although Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani expressed confidence that the country’s security forces could repel the invading Taliban forces, it fled the capital.
Fearing reprisals from the Taliban, thousands of Afghans will begin to seek asylum from foreign governments. In an attempt to drive the Taliban out of their brutal rule, the coalition forces used local interpreters.
Even for those seeking to leave, U.S. President Joe Biden’s August 31 evacuation date quickly approached, but then chaotic evacuation was carried out at Kabul Airport-a fatal suicide bombing on Thursday caused more than 180 People died, including 13 Americans, which made them even more crazy. army.
Canadian officials have faced waves of criticism due to the slow evacuation speed, and are often troubled by technical difficulties and lack of communication from the government.
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When asked why Canada closed its Afghan embassy in the weeks before the Taliban took over-which may hinder evacuation in the coming days-Gano said that when faced with serious security issues, he is obliged to accept the ambassador’s request to leave. .
“They suggested evacuation, which is exactly the decision that my deputy minister and I made to evacuate them,” Gano said.
“Remember, the Taliban were coming in a hurry and are about to enter Kabul. No one knows exactly what will happen.”
Embassies in other countries, including those in the United States and the United Kingdom, have been kept open to help facilitate the evacuation of citizens and Afghan refugees-an advantage that Canada did not have until the latter part of the evacuation process.
The minister said that about 70 Canadian personnel were brought back to Afghanistan to assist in the evacuation process, including the Canadian military and its staff.
As Canadians are preparing to participate in public opinion polls on September 20, the instability in Afghanistan has also emerged in a period of political uncertainty in Canada.
When asked whether Canada was more passive in evacuation work because of concerns that something happened on the ground during the election period would bring political risks, Garno said he wanted to “break this myth.”
The minister said that Canadian special forces were present in the country during the evacuation work and carried out operations outside the airport. He and all ministers involved in the process have always regarded Afghanistan as the “main issue” despite the elections.
Garneau is running for re-election with Minister of Defense Harjit Sajjan and Minister of Immigration Marco Mendicino.
Garneau said: “I can assure you that all of my departments have been working hard to solve this particular problem.”
“For us, this election is completely inferior to our main responsibility. As the Minister of Foreign Affairs, I am able to focus completely on Afghanistan. I am very proud.”
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