[AlAhram] Uzbekistan had mostly withheld comment on the number and status of the refugees as it looked to cultivate ties with the Taliban ...Arabic for students... next door
The United States said Tuesday it had evacuated nearly 500 "military and civilian" Afghans from Uzbekistan, while the ex-Soviet country declared there were now no Afghan refugees on its territory.
The days leading up to the Taliban's capture of Kabul caused scenes of chaos in Afghanistan's Central Asian neighbours Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, as soldiers loyal to the crumbling government fled over state borders in military aircraft.
But a US embassy front man told AFP Tuesday it had evacuated 494 "military and civilian" Afghans out of Uzbekistan's southern Termez airport with the Uzbek government's help.
"The evacuation was completed September 12-13," the front man told AFP by telephone, making no comment on the final destination of the refugees.
Uzbek foreign ministry front man Yusup Kabulzhanov on Monday confirmed the evacuation in comments to the privately-owned Kun.uz outlet.
"All Afghan refugees have left the territory of Uzbekistan", he said, without giving figures.
A staffer at Afghanistan's embassy told AFP last month that up to 1,500 Afghans might have crossed into Uzbekistan illegally after the Taliban secured control of the northern stronghold Mazar-e-Sharif in mid-August and began beating a path towards Kabul.
In a rare statement on the refugees in August, Uzbekistan said it had returned 150 people to Afghanistan at their own request and following talks with the Taliban to guarantee their safety.
- THOUSANDS OF AFGHANS IN TAJIKISTAN: EU - Tajikistan, which has eschewed official contacts with the Taliban, has been similarly secretive about the number of refugees it has taken in.
The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... 's delegation in the country said on Tuesday that it was providing 160,000 Euros in humanitarian aid funding "to benefit up to 5,000 displaced Afghans" in two Tajik provinces bordering Afghanistan.
The EU statement cited the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) as saying that "up to 50,000 refugees could be registered in Tajikistan after the total withdrawal of American and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. A single organization with differing goals, equipment, language, doctrine, and structure.... troops by the end of 2021".
The statement comes after Interior Minister Ramazon Hamro Rahimzoda earlier this month criticised international donors for failing to help Tajikistan house refugees.
Afghanistan is set to dominate discussions at the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation -- a bloc that includes four ex-Soviet Central Asian countries, China, India, Pakistain and Russia -- hosted by Tajikistan this week.
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why are we evacuating Afghan citizens from Uzbekistan?
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Something about the mail-in ballots not making it back from there...
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why are we evacuating Afghan citizens from Uzbekistan?
Holding pen, Chris. They were temporarily cached there, among other garden spots, so the airplanes could turn around more quickly to pick up the next load from Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. Also, it gives the State Department more time to figure out who among the passengers should never have been allowed on the airplane or into the U.S.
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[Rusvesna] Experts of the interdepartmental commission on the search for missing persons found and removed from the mass grave in Snezhnoye the remains of 28 people. This was reported today by the office of the DPR ombudsman, chairman of the commission, Daria Morozova.
"Yesterday, September 13, during the next stage of search work on the territory of the Ovsyanoye cemetery in Snezhnoye, the remains of seven people were recovered from unmarked graves. Snezhnoye is about 40 miles due east of Donetsk city.
Recall that the search group of the interdepartmental commission has been exploring this location since August 18. During this time, the remains of 28 people were discovered and raised to the surface. They were sent to the Republican Bureau of the SME for conducting forensic investigations, ”the office said.
They added that in parallel, work is underway to identify the relatives of the victims.
"This is important for further identification of the victims. But it is already obvious that we are talking about civilians, as evidenced by the surviving items of civilian clothing," the office stressed.
The exhumation on the territory of the Snezhnyanskoye cemetery will continue.
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[Korrespondent] Money for the rescue of the Church of St. Nicholas continues to flow. Work can begin as early as mid-October.
For the restoration of the Church of St. Nicholas in Kiev, which suffered from a fire, 15.7 million hryvnias (USD $591,600.32) have already been collected. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy.
"The first meeting of the working group on public control over the progress of emergency restoration work in the Church of St. Nicholas took place," the message says.
Minister of Culture and Information Policy Alexander Tkachenko said that the State Emergency Service had drawn up a preliminary conclusion on the emergency condition of the building.
After the conclusion of the State Commission on Technogenic and Environmental Safety and Emergencies, an examination of the emergency condition of the building will be carried out. It will become the basis for the preparation of design estimates.
According to preliminary data, work in the church will begin in mid-October.
[TASS] Media reports claiming that Moscow is in possession of a large amount of evidence regarding the intervention of US intelligence agencies and IT companies in the Russian elections is correct, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Tuesday.
"The information, reported in the Kommersant article is true," the diplomat noted.
On Tuesday, the Kommersant newspaper reported, citing a diplomatic source, that Russia has a ‘colossal amount’ of unreleased information regarding US intervention in the Russian elections. Couldn't find the report. Sorry.
Earlier, Zakharova pointed out that, according to the Russian national IT watchdog, IP addresses, associated with the ‘Smart Vote’ app technical support are mostly located in the US, adding that its developers have connections to the Pentagon. Russian nationwide legislative elections (Russian Duma) will take place on September 19th.
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[TASS] Media reports claiming that Moscow is in possession of a large amount of evidence regarding the intervention of US intelligence agencies and IT companies in the Russian elections is correct, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Tuesday.
