Second Afghan Refugee Flight Headed For Spain
Umer Jamshaid Published October 12, 2021 | 05:31 PM
A second planeload of Afghan refugees was expected to arrive in Spain Tuesday from Pakistan, a government source said, the day after a first flight for people who worked for Madrid in the war-torn country
Madrid, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 12th Oct, 2021 ) :A second planeload of Afghan refugees was expected to arrive in Spain Tuesday from Pakistan, a government source said, the day after a first flight for people who worked for Madrid in the war-torn country.
Tuesday's arrival with around 160 people was scheduled for around 7:00 pm (1700 GMT) at the Torrejon de Ardoz military airbase outside Madrid, government sources said on condition of anonymity.
On Monday 84 people had arrived on the first plane, the sources added.
Spain's evacuations have been weeks in the making, with Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albares visiting Pakistan and Qatar in early September to lay the groundwork.
Madrid evacuated more than 2,000 people, most of them Afghans who had worked for Spain and their families.
The European Union's top diplomat, Josep Borrell, on Friday urged the bloc's member states to host a "minimum" of between 10,000 and 20,000 more Afghan refugees.
"To welcome them, we have to evacuate them, and we're getting down to it, but it's not easy," he said in Madrid.
The EU has said a demand by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to take in 42,500 Afghan refugees over five years can be achieved -- although any decision lies with member states.
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