“The third flight” evacuating French and foreign nationals from Afghanistan “will arrive today in Paris”, said Clément Beaune, Thursday August 19 on franceinfo. “There have already been three rotations of the planes of our armies, that’s about 400 people” evacuated, also said the Secretary of State for European Affairs. Among them, there are according to him “overwhelmingly Afghans who are precisely in urgent need of protection, often because they worked for French structures”. “We can not” give the number “exact” of people “in need of protection” who will be welcomed in France, he continued, but “we are probably talking about a few thousand people.”
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At present, “you have those who tell you ‘we must not welcome anyone’ or those who brandish the threat of the migratory wave that will overwhelm us”, said Clément Beaune. For him, “it is irresponsible and it is not true”. On the other hand, there are those “who tell you through slogans welcome everyone”, he added, pointing “a certain number of elected ecologists or from rebellious France”.
“The political project for Afghanistan cannot be to welcome 40 million Afghans to Europe or the United States, that is not the future we are offering to women or to the youth of Afghanistan . “
Clément Beaune, Secretary of State for European Affairs
to franceinfo
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“The European project cannot consist in telling the Afghans’ take your chance, risk your life, pass through the hands of smugglers for weeks, months, get violated, extorted, sometimes raped, and then if, at the end of the day. of the way, you arrive in Europe, we will be there “, said the Secretary of State for European Affairs. “This is not a humanist political project”, he tackled.
During his speech on the situation in Afghanistan on Monday evening, Emmanuel Macron explained that he wanted to carry a European initiative aimed at “to anticipate” and “protect against significant irregular migratory flows” who “feed trafficking of all kinds”. Terms “significant irregular migratory flows” are at the origin of a controversy in which the executive has been stuck for several days now.
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