ROME: Italy's foreign minister Luigi Di Maio on Friday confirmed that the last Italian military flight evacuating people from Afghanistan will depart from Kabul later in the day. Italy, which holds the rotating presidency of the G20, is still pushing for a special meeting on Afghanistan as its last evacuation flight has left Kabul.

Di Maio said that among those aboard the departing C-130 Italian Air Force aircraft will be the Italian consul, who had stayed on in Kabul at the airport to oversee the evacuation of Italians and foreigners, as well as the top NATO diplomat, Stefano Pontecorvo, who is Italian.

Italy's last airlift flight, carried out by a military C-130 plane, is expected to land in Rome on Saturday, bringing back "all the Italians who asked to be repatriated", Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Friday. He confirmed that some 4,900 Afghan nationals who wanted to leave following the Taliban takeover of the war-ton nation have been evacuated by Italian forces during the operation, as per reports.

"Afghanistan has been at the core of our talks today... in this context, we see the dialogue with Russia as essential," Lavrov, Di Maio explained. He added that Italy's push to organise a special G20 meeting on Afghanistan stemmed from the belief that only "a comprehensive, coherent and shared action can be effective with the new authorities in Kabul".

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