{"id":35801,"date":"2021-08-24T02:01:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T17:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/23\/dozens-of-mps-sign-letter-urging-uk-to-evacuate-all-kabul-embassy-guards"},"modified":"2021-08-24T02:01:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T17:01:22","slug":"dozens-of-mps-sign-letter-urging-uk-to-evacuate-all-kabul-embassy-guards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35801","title":{"rendered":"Dozens of MPs sign letter urging UK to evacuate all Kabul embassy guards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Letter to defence secretary says promise of visas is hollow without plan to evacuate guards from Afghanistan <\/p>\n<p>Dozens of cross-party MPs have signed a letter to the defence secretary calling on him to evacuate all the guards who provided security for the British embassy in Kabul.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a commitment from the Foreign Office on Friday that visas would be given to all the Afghan security staff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/19\/guards-at-kabul-embassy-told-they-are-ineligible-for-uk-protection\">contracted through the international security firm GardaWorld<\/a> to protect the embassy, the guards have still been given no information about if and how they may be helped to leave the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/23\/dozens-of-mps-sign-letter-urging-uk-to-evacuate-all-kabul-embassy-guards\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letter to defence secretary says promise of visas is hollow without plan to evacuate guards from Afghanistan Dozens of cross-party MPs have signed a letter to the defence secretary calling on him to evacuate all the guards who provided security for the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,1808,997,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-ben-wallace","category-defence-policy","category-politics","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35802,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35801\/revisions\/35802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}