Canada stated on Tuesday it will absorb and resettle some 5,000 Afghan refugees who had been evacuated by the United States after the withdrawal of the final American troops from Kabul.
“We know there is more to do with allied evacuation operations ending,” Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino stated. “We’re pulling out all the stops to help as many Afghans as possible who want to make their home in Canada.”
Canada evacuated some 3,700 Afghans from Kabul who had labored with its armed forces up to now. Canada withdrew its final troopers from Afghanistan seven years in the past.
The 5,000 refugees evacuated by the United States might be resettled as a part of a beforehand introduced Canadian plan to soak up greater than 20,000 weak Afghans – together with girls leaders, human rights staff and reporters – to guard them from Taliban reprisals.
Canada stated it hoped to proceed to assist Afghans who need to resettle so long as the Taliban permit them to depart.
“Afghans with travel documents to other countries must be allowed to move safely and freely out of the country without interference,” Foreign Minister Marc Garneau stated at a information convention. “Canada and its allies are firm on this point, and we are united.”
Celebratory gunfire resounded throughout Kabul on Tuesday because the Taliban took management of the airport following the withdrawal of the final US troops, marking the top of a 20-year battle that left the Islamist group stronger than it was in 2001.