Pristina: Albania has received US requests for a while taking Afghan refugees who are looking for visas to enter the United States, Prime Minister Edi Rama said on Sunday, because the Taliban troops entered the capital of Afghanistan Kabul entered Kabul.
Rama said US President Joe Biden recently asked fellow NATO members to assess whether it could function as a transit country for a number of Afghan refugees which are the United States.
“We will not say ‘no’, not only because our big ally asked us, but because we were Albania,” Rama said on his Facebook account.
This week, the sources told Reuters that the Biden government had held discussions with countries such as Kosovo and Albania about protecting Afghans affiliated with the US from Taliban retaliation until they complete their US visa approval process.
In Kosovo, Luan Dalipi, the Chief of Staff of Prime Minister Albin Kurti, said the government had come into contact with the US authorities about the Afghan refugee housing since mid-July.
“There are many logistics, technical, security and social work that we handle carefully,” Dalipi said in a statement.
Hundreds of US troops were still placed in Kosovo as a peacekeeper of more than two decades after the 1998-99 war with Yugoslavian security forces.
In 2014, Albania received around 3,000 members of the Iranian People’s Mujahideen Organization, also known as Farsi Mujahididen-e-Khalq, and they had settled in the camp near Durres, the country’s main port.