THE Ursula von der Leyen and Charles Michel will be at the Torrejon de Ardot military base near Madrid tomorrow to visit Afghan reception center, former employees of European institutions, who left Kabul, according to a statement by the head of Spanish diplomacy.
“The Torrejon base will be tomorrow the center of Europe, “said the Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Alvarez in an interview with Cadena Ser on the visit of the President of the European Commission and the President of the European Council, accompanied by the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.
This center, which was set up by the Spanish Air Force in four days, will be able to welcome 1,000 people “It will be a” hub “, the” chamber of Europe, because from here will pass all the Afghans who cooperated with various EU institutions “, explained the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, as broadcast by ΑΠΕ ΜΠΕ.
It is recalled that the Spain agreed, during talks with the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell and the Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg, to become the “gateway to the European Union” for Afghan refugees working in Kabul on behalf of European institutions.
“They arrive in Spain and from there they head to other countries “They will be given entry permits,” the Spanish foreign minister told Cadena Ser, without elaborating on the Afghans who worked for NATO.
He also assured that “practically all the countries of the European Union” have accepted this scheme and that they are committed to accepting a part of these refugees.
As far as Spain is concerned, it will welcome “about 50%“These refugees,” said the Spanish Foreign Minister.
In the first year, the Afghans will receive from Madrid “temporary leave to reside in Torrejon de Ardot, before receiving refugee status from the European countries in which they will settle.
Yesterday, after the arrival at the military base of the first military aircraft from Kabul carrying 48 Afghans and 5 Spaniards, “the consuls of many countries they began to arrive in Torrejon “to get in touch with these refugees, he said. A few hours earlier, another plane from Rome was carrying 35 Afghan officials from the EU mission to Kabul.
In Brussels, EU representative, o Peter Stanos“More than 160 people” – EU workers and their families – have already arrived in Europe, he said, adding that more than 200 more are expected to leave Kabul, although he said the number he is not final.
On Saturday, “we will see another Europe, a Europe of values,” the Spanish foreign minister said in another interview, stressing that the fact that the European Union had agreed to make Spain the gateway for these refugees to Europe was “expression of confidenceOn behalf of Brussels.
In parallel with the dismissal of workers for the European Union in Kabul, Madrid continues, moreover, the business the removal of Afghans who worked for the Spanish Armed Forces and various Spanish services.
A second Spanish military aircraft, an Airbus A400M, took off early in the morning from Kabul with 110 people, mainly Afghans who had worked with the Spanish embassy and their families. The plane also carried the leader of Afghanistan’s wheelchair basketball team, Nilofar Bayat.
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