Afghanistan, Di Maio: “In the next few days we will reopen the Kabul embassy in Qatar”

“Our intention is to relocate the embassy we had in Kabul here in Doha, Qatar, together with our allies in the coming days. Qatar has been crucial to the talks in recent years.” This was stated by the Foreign Minister, Luigi Di Maio, in connection from Qatar with the Ambrosetti forum in Cernobbio. “The first concern goes to the fact that Afghanistan can go back to being a comfort zone for terrorist cells. From the Afghan authorities we expect the fight against terrorism, respect for human rights and in particular for women, free access for agencies and NGOs in the territory and a safe passage for Afghans who want to leave the country “, Di Maio then added, underlining:” The evacuation of Afghan civilians from Afghanistan to Italy or Europe on a bilateral level is not imaginable. We cannot giving the lists of those we want to evacuate to the Taliban would become ‘killing lists’ “. “In these hours as a government we are trying to collaborate with the neighboring countries of Afghanistan on the risk of terrorism and on support for the displaced people who are filling the refugee camps in Pakistan, Iran and the countries of the North. We want to build greater collaboration with ours. intelligence to avoid that in the flows of displaced persons there may be elements attributable to terrorist cells “, then stated Di Maio.