- Title: More evacuees from Afghanistan arriving in Germany
- Date: 19th August 2021
- Summary: GIESSEN, GERMANY (AUGUST 19, 2021) (CORONA POOL) GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL VISITING LIEBIG MUSEUM (SOUNDBITE) (German) GERMAN CHANCELLOR, ANGELA MERKEL, SAYING: "We are now working flat out to bring people back from Afghanistan. German citizens, but also as many local people as possible or Afghans who need protection. It is a coordinated international operation in which Germany is also playing an important role. I would like to thank our soldiers who are deployed there. This is anything but easy, a very highly complicated operation. And I hope that today, too, planes will arrive safely with people seeking protection. I would also like to thank Uzbekistan, who are working very intensively with us, because we are first making the short journey from Kabul to Tashkent, and then making it possible for the people to fly back to Germany on civilian aircraft, thanks also to Lufthansa. And I hope that we will succeed in bringing as many people as possible home or to protection and safety." FOLLOWED BY MERKEL LEAVING
- Embargoed: 2nd September 2021 13:41
- Keywords: Afghanistan Germany Merkel Uzbekistan evacuees
- Location: FRANKFURT; GIESSEN, GERMANY
- City: FRANKFURT; GIESSEN, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
- Topics: Diplomacy/Foreign Policy,Europe,Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA002EQY3X3B
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: Another plane with dozens of evacuees from Afghanistan has landed in Frankfurt on Thursday. The Uzbekistan Airlines flight had left the Uzbek capital Tashkent earlier. The German Bundeswehr arranged an air bridge between Kabul and Tashkent and has evacuated several hundred people so far. From Tashkent the evacuees are taken to Germany in civil airplanes.
German chancellor Angela Merkel thanked Uzbekistan for it's support in the operation. "We are now working flat out to bring people back from Afghanistan. German citizens, but also as many local people as possible or Afghans who need protection. It is a coordinated international operation in which Germany is also playing an important role. I would like to thank our soldiers who are deployed there. This is anything but easy, a very highly complicated operation", Merkel said during a museum visit in Giessen.
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