Spain will not be able to rescue all Afghans who served Spanish missions in Afghanistan on account of the "dramatic" situation on the ground, Defence Minister Margarita Robles said Tuesday. "We will evacuate as many people as possible but there are people who will stay behind for reasons that do not depend on us, but on the situation there," Robles said, adding that Taliban checkpoints and violence were making it difficult for people to reach Kabul airport to catch one of the daily flights on a Spanish military plane out of the country.
Speaking to a prominent Spanish radio network on Tuesday, Margarita Robles said that the country will evacuate as many people as possible but there are people who will left behind due to the "dramatic" situation on the ground. "Not everyone would be evacuated before the 31 August deadline agreed with the Taliban," a report by the BBC quoted Wallace as saying. "We have taken out 2,000 people in the last 24 hours and 10,000 since April," Wallace said. "Our focus is to get as many people out, but the scale of the challenge means that not everyone will get out. We are ruthlessly prioritising people," he alerted.
Earlier in the day, her UK counterpart Ben Wallace issued a similar warning.
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