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According to the minister, next week, after each of them has received the documents, their additional supervision will shift from the Ministry of National Defense to the Ministry of Social Security and Labor.
“More life will be in the hands of the Afghans themselves,” writes A. Anušauskas on Facebook.
Photo by Sigismund Gedvila / 15min / Arvydas Anušauskas
“For seven weeks of working with Afghans, we thank the employees of the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defense and the Armed Forces, as well as the Raseiniai municipality and local shooters. And, of course, the families of the officers of the Birutė Women’s Union in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. Another peacetime task for the national defense of providing support to civil institutions will be completed, taking place on August 22. it began with the appearance of the eleventh in Kabul, ”wrote the Minister of National Defense.
15 minutes recalls that 167 Afghans were reportedly granted asylum last week. At the time, the other eleven were still making up their minds because some information was missing and circumstances were being established.
Last week, Evelina Gudzinskaitė, head of the Migration Department, said that in the future several dozen more former Lithuanian military aides who have not yet arrived in the country may come to Lithuania.
When NATO forces withdrew from Afghanistan in mid-August, the Taliban nearly seized control of the country and surrounded the capital.
The last place people left was the Kabul airport, from which, in a couple of weeks, Western countries have helped evacuate thousands of Afghans whose lives have been threatened by cooperation with coalition forces.
To help the locals who attended the army, Lithuania also sent the so-called “Eleventh Kabul” to the capital of Afghanistan: ten soldiers and a diplomat who evacuated 176 people from the troubled country in five days.
The 34 families were housed in the Raseiniai district and the Government entrusted the Ministry of National Defense to take care of their maintenance and accommodation. 600 thousand. euros.
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