MeterIn view of the appreciation of the Bundeswehr’s mission in Afghanistan, calls for an event in front of the Reichstag in Berlin are increasing. “The event should be held in a public place,” said Bernhard Drescher, president of the German Veterans Association and the German Editor Network (RND). “Only the grass in front of the Capitol is considered.” The focus is “politics send a signal of appreciation to soldiers and society.”
Siemtje Möller, the defense policy spokesperson for the SPD parliament group, also expressed sympathy for the corresponding request. “I think it’s a good idea to do this in front of the Capitol, because we have a parliamentary army,” she told RND. “In addition, the mission changed the way the Bundeswehr and the Bundestag handle missions.”
use Armed forces It has been in Afghanistan for nearly 20 years. The last group of German soldiers returned at the end of June. So far, the German Bundeswehr is planning to make a public appeal in the Bundler block of the headquarters of the Ministry of Defense in Berlin on August 31 to show respect for the deployment. After returning to China, the last group of units was criticized because no politicians had received returnees.
Since 2001, more than 150,000 Bundeswehr soldiers have been stationed in Afghanistan. 59 people died there during the deployment.
Help local Afghan workers
With the withdrawal of the Bundeswehr, “hundreds” of local Afghan workers came to Germany. A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense said in Berlin on Friday. A government spokesman added: “We know that we are responsible for these people.” Stephen Seibert Add to. Not everything about the details of the aid can be made public, “but a lot of things are definitely going on.”
The Ministry of National Defense announced last Monday that it had issued travel documents for 446 local employees and their families including translators, a total of 2,250 people. Seibert said: “If there is a specific and urgent desire to leave the country, the federal government will work to make it possible,” for example when people are in extreme danger.
The top left candidate and leader of the Common Party, Jeanne Wisler, accused the government on Friday of letting down local workers. I can’t understand why they didn’t fly to Germany with the troops. She said, instead, you force them to take care of the flight and pay for it.
