Time.news – Airlift for Italians in Afghanistan, Parliament ready for a debate and accelerated procedures for the reception of the Afghans who have collaborated with the Italians in recent years. Institutions and politics do not hide the concern for the reconquest of Afghanistan by the Taliban, with Palazzo Chigi and the Farnesina committed above all to securing our compatriots present in a territory under military attack.
Tomorrow at 9.30 pm the Air Force flight for the repatriation of the Italians present in Afghanistan will take off from the Kabul airport. this means “reads the e-mail sent to all compatriots. And the minister Luigi Di Maio is following the operations in contact with the Farnesina Crisis Unit and with our embassy in Kabul, while all the other Western embassies are also emptying with military flights sent from various capitals. In the coming days, all the representative offices of the Alliance countries should be evacuated and some diplomats could remain garrisoned only in the Kabul airport area.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Defense Lorenzo Guerini wanted to reassure all those Afghans who in recent years have collaborated, in administrative functions and or as interpreters, in the Italian mission. “There is a maximum commitment to transport those who have collaborated with us to Italy” hthe minister said. “I believe that it is a moral duty even before a political one and it must be really effective and important, taken to the highest level. 228 collaborators and their families have already arrived in Italy, work is being done to speed up the transfer of other collaborators, interpreters and them. family members, and in these hours everyone’s effort is really maximum to obtain a visa for these friends from Italy and leave them in our country because it is a duty “.
But Guerini also started a reflection on the whole affair: “The Taliban have conquered entire provinces practically without fighting and I believe that this must be a subject that must be the subject of a strong discussion and a reflection also in perspective with respect to our commitments, including international ones. “. “We will have to reflect on this epilogue as Italy, after 20 years of commitment, 53 of our soldiers fallen and 700 injured, but I also believe as NATO, also in relation to the objectives we set ourselves at the beginning. “Even Paolo Gentiloni, EU Commissioner for the Economy, wrote in the last few hours:” Herat is in the hands of the Taliban. If confirmed, how sad. Years of Italian commitment canceled. There will be a long discussion about this war and its ending “.
And a reflection on the rapid fall of the Alliance-backed government will surely be at the center of the debate that the Chambers should carry out already by the end of August. There are those who criticize the allied intervention from the outset, those who focus on Biden management. No date has yet been set in these days of summer break, although the heads of the Foreign and Defense committees of the House and Senate are in contact to organize a hearing of Ministers Di Maio and Guerini.
“The new Italian and Western mission in Afghanistan must be a real one ‘peace mission’”Wrote Beppe Grillo, on his social profiles.
“Coming to terms with a strategic and cultural defeat is inevitable. After 20 years of hard work, especially by the Italian contingent, the Taliban are returning to power stronger than ever. Now immediately a plan to counter terrorism, mass immigration and a dangerous crisis humanitarian, “he said Antonio Tajani, National coordinator of Forza Italia.
“I have great respect for the Alliance’s choices. But leaving Afghanistan in the hands of the Taliban is a historic mistake that we risk paying dearly,” he said. Matteo Renzi. And even Pierferdinando Casini has carried out a self-criticism on the type of commitment of these 20 years: “Let’s face it clearly: the credibility of the West towards its allies from this story comes apart, much worse than what happened after Vietnam” .
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