Portugal revealed 764 refugees from Afghanistan since humanitarian crisis began – Portugal
Until this Monday, Portugal normalized 764 refugees from Afghanistan since the country’s humanitarian emergency crisis, in August, according to data from the Portuguese government.
A joint statement from the offices of the Ministries of State and Foreign Affairs, State and Presidency, National Defense and Internal Administration referring to Portugal today a group of 273 people of Afghan nationality, including members of the National Institute of Music of Afghanistan, bringing to 764 the total number of citizens received as a result of the humanitarian emergency in Afghanistan.
The Portuguese Government referred that, since the beginning of this humanitarian crisis, “it has determined to be committed to accommodating Afghan citizens in situations of fragility and particular risk, within the limits of national capacity”.
According to the executive, the hosted citizens assigned to the definitions, namely Portuguese citizens, Afghans who collaborated with the highlighted national information, Afghans who collaborated with the European Union, NATO and the United Nations and people in a particularly vulnerable situation as activists of human rights, Afghan administration officials, journalists, musicians, women sportsmen, lawyers and engineers.
The communiqué also refers that the arrival of this group today is the result of a joint operation that involved the Portuguese and Qatar authorities, as well as North American associations, with the 273 citizens being provisionally hosted in reception units in Greater Lisbon, and must be transferred , later, for autonomous dwellings.
The conflict and insecurity in Afghanistan forced the departure of 3.5 million people, 700,000 of them last year, in a process aggravated by the takeover of power by the Taliban in August of this year.