According to Vice Chancellor Olaf Scholz, the federal government is trying to save Afghan armed forces and their families from the violent advance of the Taliban more quickly. “We are discussing whether there are ways to accelerate the transport in order to fly out those affected more quickly,” said the SPD candidate for chancellor of the “Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung”. Intensive efforts were made.
“Germany cannot decide that alone, it is a matter of close coordination with the Afghan government,” said Scholz. Chancellor Angela Merkel had promised more support for the local staff and, among other things, brought up charter flights to fly out helpers with their families.
Meanwhile, critics continue to accuse Germany of not helping the helpers, on whom the Bundeswehr was dependent, quickly enough. “The half-hearted support of the federal government for Afghan local staff, who have supported the Bundeswehr every day in its 20-year mission, is shameful,” said FDP parliamentary deputy Alexander Graf Lambsdorff of “Welt”.
The Taliban, which controlled large parts of Afghanistan from 1996 to the US-led intervention in 2001, are currently conquering one provincial capital after another – including Kunduz, where the Bundeswehr had a large base for years. At the end of June, after almost 20 years, the Bundeswehr withdrew the last soldiers from Afghanistan. The US armed forces are expected to leave the country by the end of August.
Scholz rejects the proposal for a further military operation, as brought up by the CDU foreign politician Norbert Röttgen at the weekend. “I think another military operation in Afghanistan is not indicated,” he told the NOZ. “After 20 years, the international community has just withdrawn. There are no efforts at all nationally and internationally for a renewed deployment. ”The Federal Ministry of Defense had previously rejected such considerations. (dpa)
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