A.Anušauskas: all Afghans returned to Lithuania have refugee status
According to the Minister, next week, after receiving the documents from each of them, the Ministers of Social Security and Labor will transfer from the Ministry of National Defense for further supervision.
“Further life will be in the hands of the Afghans themselves,” A. Anušauskas writes on Facebook.
“For seven weeks of work with Afghans, we thank the employees of the Ministry of National Defense and the Lithuanian Armed Forces, as well as Raseiniai Municipality and local shooters. And of course the Lithuanian Women’s Union of Birutė officers’ families is known. Another peacetime task for national defense in providing support to civilian institutions will be completed, which will take place on 22 August. the appearance of the eleventh Kabul in the future, ”the Minister of National Defense wrote.
15min recalls last week’s reports that 167 Afghans are being granted asylum. At that time, the other eleven were still being decided because some information was missing and circumstances were being established.
Last week, Evelina Gudzinskaitė, the head of the Migration Department, said that in the future several dozen more former Lithuanian military helpers who have not yet reached the country may come to Lithuania.
As NATO forces withdrew from Afghanistan in mid-August, the Taliban almost took control of the country and surrounded the capital.
Kabul Airport became the last place for people to leave, from which in a couple of weeks Western countries helped evacuate thousands of Afghans whose lives were threatened by cooperation with coalition forces.
In order to help the people who helped the army, Lithuania also sent messages to the Afghan capital about the “Eleventh of Kabul” – ten soldiers and diplomats who evacuated 176 people from the troubled country in five days.
All 34 families were accommodated in Raseiniai district, and the Government’s gazebo was taken care of by the Ministers of National Defense. 600 thousand. euros.