Afghanistan live news: UK defence secretary says it is ‘unlikely’ evacuation of Kabul will be extended
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The EU has evacuated all its staff and their families from Afghanistan, apart from some officials working at Kabul airport, a spokesperson for the European Commission has said.
“All the staff who needed to be evacuated have been evacuated,” he told journalists in Brussels. “We still have a core presence at the airport in order to manage what needs to managed, but the staff of the EU delegation and their families have all been evacuated.”
Ahead of this afternoon’s emergency G7 meeting, the Guardian’s diplomatic editor, Patrick Wintour, has this analysis on the concerns each country is likely to bring to the table.
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