Dominic Raab: 'Almost all' British nationals who want to leave Afghanistan have returned to the UK
Telegraph, 25 Aug 2021
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Almost all single-nationality UK citizens who want to leave Afghanistan have been brought home, Dominic Raab has confirmed.
The Foreign Secretary said that a further 2,000 people had been airlifted out of Kabul airport in the past 24 hours, taking the total number evacuated since the operation began in mid-August to more than 9,000.
He told Sky News on Wednesday morning: "Mono-nationals, so single-nationality UK who have got documentation, the lion's share, almost all of them that want to come out have been brought home.
"The ones that are remaining, and we have done an amazing job, two-and-a-half thousand UK nationals if you go back to April... what remains are rather complex cases, large family units where one or other may be documented or may be clearly a national, but it's not clear whether the rest of them are."
The pressure to airlift remaining individuals out of the country is intense, after Joe Biden rejected calls on Tuesday to delay his Aug 31 exit date from Afghanistan - something that the Taliban had already said was a "red line".
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Almost all single-nationality UK citizens who want to leave Afghanistan have been brought home, Dominic Raab has confirmed.
The Foreign Secretary said that a further 2,000 people had been airlifted out of Kabul airport in the past 24 hours, taking the total number evacuated since the operation began in mid-August to more than 9,000.
He told Sky News on Wednesday morning: "Mono-nationals, so single-nationality UK who have got documentation, the lion's share, almost all of them that want to come out have been brought home.
"The ones that are remaining, and we have done an amazing job, two-and-a-half thousand UK nationals if you go back to April... what remains are rather complex cases, large family units where one or other may be documented or may be clearly a national, but it's not clear whether the rest of them are."
The pressure to airlift remaining individuals out of the country is intense, after Joe Biden rejected calls on Tuesday to delay his Aug 31 exit date from Afghanistan - something that the Taliban had already said was a "red line".
Read more here:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/08/25/almost-british-nationals-want-leave-afghanistan-have-returned2/
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