Haag: Six European Union countries have called for the European Commission not to stop the Afghan migrant deportation despite the acceleration of the increase in Taliban, officials said on Tuesday.
The Austrian government, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece and the Netherlands wrote to the European Union’s executive arm that said they had to be allowed to send Afghan migrants back if their bid of asylum failed.
Afghanistan urged the European Union in July to stop the forced deportation of Afghan migrants for three months because of security forces against the Taliban attack ahead of the full US military withdrawal from Afghanistan on August 31.
Their letters asked intensive dialogue with Afghan partners on all urgent migration problems including a quick and effective return cooperation “.” Next, the resistance sends the wrong signal and is likely to motivate more Afghans to leave their homes for the EU, ” The letter said, which was sent on August 5, which was seen by AFP.
The Belgian Migration Minister Sammy Mahdi confirmed the contents of the letter on Twitter, added: “Only because the area of ​​a malicious country does not mean that everyone from the country has the right to protection.” Ministry The Dutch Justice also confirmed that he had asked Brussels not to suspend forced deportation, adding that “the development in Afghanistan was being followed”.
Minister of Immigration Danish Mattias Tesfaye said he was “happy” that six countries had the same thoughts about this problem.
“It is important for the government that failed asylum seekers h The current was sent to their own country, “he said in a statement issued after the letter was originally sent last weekend.
But an EU senior official said that because Afghanistan authorities had told Brussels that Kabul suspended his forced return operation for three months, there was little opportunity to continue.
“And clearly considering the current situation I did not expect forced surgery to truly occur,” the official said.
The official said that so far this year 1,200 people have returned to Afghanistan from the EU – with 1,000 of those who are “voluntary” and 200 “forced”.
The Taliban controls the seven capital of Afghan Province after a Blitz in the north of the country forced tens of thousands of people to escape from their homes.
The United States has all unless leaving the battlefield ahead of the completion at the end of the last month of the war, after the 2001 invasion to drop the Taliban after the September 11 attacks.
After the appeal of Kabul to UE countries on July 11, Sweden and Finland stopped forcibly deportation to Afghanistan.
Afghanistan in 2020 formed 10.6 percent asylum seekers in the EU, or only more than 44,000 of the approximately 416,000 requests, the second largest behind Syria at 15.2%, according to EU statistics.