Because France has done alone (and better) on the farewell to Afghanistan
France began its evacuations from Afghanistan last May, amid more criticism than praise. Italics by Giuseppe Gagliano
Unlike other Western nations, which are currently rushing to evacuate their own citizens and employees of the Afghan embassy in the midst of the Taliban's chaotic control of Afghanistan, while there have been ISIS terror attacks , France has started his evacuations in May. It was then that the French government put in place a complex operation to evacuate the Afghans who had worked for its diplomatic structures, as well as their families. Some 600 Afghans are believed to have been evacuated in May, followed by several dozen evacuations in June and July.
The French government is now being praised by all sides for its "preventive planning".
In May, however, there was far more criticism than praise. On July 5, in an interview with French state-owned international television broadcaster France24 , Etienne Gille, director of the French charity Amité Franco-Afghan, mocked the French government's evacuations of Afghans as "premature ”, Saying that they would damage the relief efforts.
In May, a German diplomat, who spoke anonymously to the French newspaper Le Monde , criticized France for its decision to evacuate the Afghans and said that Germany will not leave Afghanistan, but instead invest 400 million euros. to fortify civil society.
Why was the French response so different from that of other Western nations? The former British ambassador to France, Lord Peter Ricketts, offered an explanation. He told British newspaper The Telegraph that the main reason behind France's advance planning was its distance from the United States. Britain, which has "stronger ties to Washington" than France, has largely relied on White House assessments of the situation in Afghanistan. France, on the other hand, maintains a "relative distance" from the United States, and has thus been able to "act quickly on its own conclusions," said Lord Peter. He added that Paris "simply moved on without feeling the need to coordinate closely with the United States."
It's Italy? In tow of the USA and NATO.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/francia-afghanistan-evacuazioni/ on Fri, 27 Aug 2021 09:20:45 +0000.