The German Minister of the Interior Alexander Dobrindt wants to lead to direct negotiations with the Taliban about the deportation of Afghan perpetrators. At the moment, contacts would only take place via third parties, he said. That should not remain a permanent solution.
With Syrian leadership, the Minister of the Interior also wants to conclude an agreement to withdraw citizens. “It is clear that there are two other extremely big challenges that are unsolved: return to Syria and to Afghanistan. There are no similarities with both countries,” Dobrind said. With Syria, however, there are already direct contacts.
Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world and has suffered from war for decades. In the summer of 2021, the Taliban returned to power in the middle of the withdrawal of Western armed forces, and many states and organizations then returned their help for the country. The people in Afghanistan have little prospect of work, their future is extremely uncertain. Women are largely excluded from public life.
German government in Damascus
Last year in Syria after years of civil war, ruler Bashar-Al-Assad was overthrown. The new government is formed Islamist. Since its power change, various German government members have been to Damascus, including the predecessor of Dobrindt Nancy Faeser (see video above). The Minister of the Interior Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) of Austria also participated in this trip to talk to the new rulers.
“We could agree on concrete implementation steps in terms of the training of the security forces and return and deportation,” said Karner at that time. At the end of June, however, the expulsion of a Syrian perpetrator to Syria failed. On Thursday, the ministry announced that it had been carried out now.
Karner welcomes plans
“The clear dedication of the German Minister of the Interior on deportations to Afghanistan is another step for strictly, hard and just asylum policy in Europe. Austria and Germany are moving together,” Karner said about Dobrindt’s statement. At the EU level, he had long asked himself to make deportations to Afghanistan possible again.
Source: Krone
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