Berlin: Germany and the Netherlands have suspended any migrant deportation to Afghanistan because the security situation is tense because the Taliban militants make a large increase in the Central Asian country.
Nearly 30,000 Afghans in Germany, many of them failed to find asylum, is currently required to leave the country.
The German Interior Minister said the decision was taken because of concern for their safety involved in deportation.
Deportation of six Afghans to Kabul planned for August 3 was canceled with short notice due to a bomb attack in the Afghan capital.
“The security situation in the field changes so fast when we cannot fulfill (our responsibility for salvation) people are deported, staff who accompany them or flight crews,” said Minister of Internal Affairs Horshofer.
But he defended deportation in general as “The important part of the migration policy,” adds that criminal expulsion punished and people consider security threats will be continued immediately after the situation allows.
The decision was welcomed by German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas, who noted that the previous Afghan government asked Germany to suspend flights until the end of October.
“We are doing it now,” he told reporters in Berlin.
” I think it’s true too.
” In the Netherlands, Secretary of Justice State Ankie Broukers-Knol wrote to Parliament that changes in Afghanistan were very unpredictable “it was a decision taken to impose the moratorium on departure.
‘” He said the decision was justified by “deteriorating situations and possibilities for waiting for a decision Until there is a more stable assessment of this situation.
‘ ‘The German Ministry of Foreign Affairs updates it.
New Asylum Evaluation Reports, who usually provide the main criteria to decide whether rejected asylum seekers can be deported.
Since 2016, more than 1,000 Afghan migrants who did not succeed in submitting asylum applications in Germany have been sent back to their home countries.
, According to DPA.
Last week, six other European Union member countries argue that the forced deportation of migrants returned to Afghanistan must continue even though the government in Kabul suspended “non-voluntary return ‘for three months.
In August 5, Interior Minister Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece and the Netherlands urged the EU executive branch to “intensify the talks ” with the Afghan government to ensure that the deportation of refugees will continue.” Stop the return on sending the wrong signal and the possibility of going.
Motivating more Afghans to leave their homes for the EU, ” The ministers wrote to the European Commission.
The Commission confirmed Tuesday that it had received the letter and will answer when ready.
Asked whether Afghanistan was a safe place to send people forcibly, a spokesman for Adalbert Jahnz said: “Whatever respectively (EU) member countries to make individual judgments for whether returns are possible.” Broldeneded by the Biden Administration decision to attract troops America from Afghanistan and the end of the NATO forces training mission in Afghanistan, Taliban militants have arrested five of the 34 provincial capital in less than a week.
Afghan security forces, who have been supported, trained and financed with billions of dollars in Western military efforts for 20 years Which includes many European Union countries, apparently unable to overcome the Taliban attack.
More than 1 million migrants came to Germany in 2015 looking for asylum, most of them from countries damaged by civil wars such as Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.
Germany, the Netherlands suspended deportation to Afghanistan
