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WEDNESDAY, JULY 06, 2022
Germany to reduce embassy staff in Kabul, fly out staff and helpers

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Reuters
13 August, 2021, 08:45 pm
Last modified: 13 August, 2021, 08:47 pm

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Germany to reduce embassy staff in Kabul, fly out staff and helpers

Afghans without visas would get their papers in Germany to speed up the process

Reuters
13 August, 2021, 08:45 pm
Last modified: 13 August, 2021, 08:47 pm
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas addresses the media during a joint news conference with his counterpart from Bahrain, Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, after a meeting in Berlin, Germany, August 11, 2021. Michael Sohn/Pool via REUTERS
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas addresses the media during a joint news conference with his counterpart from Bahrain, Abdullatif bin Rashid Al-Zayani, after a meeting in Berlin, Germany, August 11, 2021. Michael Sohn/Pool via REUTERS

Germany will reduce its embassy staff in Kabul to the bare minimum and increase security measures at the compound, Foreign Minister Heiko Maas said on Friday, echoing similar announcements by the United States and other Western governments.

"The government's crisis coordination team also decided to bring forward charter flights that were originally planned for the end of August," Maas told journalists in Denzlingen in southern Germany.

The minister said the aim was to fly out embassy staff as well as local Afghan helpers with these flights. Afghans without visas would get their papers in Germany to speed up the process.

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