Guwahati News Desk: With activists across the globe urging world governments to take in Afghan refugees leaving their country fearing persecution by the Taliban regime, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz informed that the European nation “will not take any refugee from Afghanistan.”
The announcement was made through a series of tweets by the Austrian Chancellor on Sunday.
He ascribed the decision to what he called “problems with integration” and the number of Afghan refugees already living in Austria.
A rough translation of Kurz’s German tweet stated, “Austria has already made a disproportionately high contribution by taking in 44,000 Afghans. The Afghan community in Austria is one of the largest such communities in the world per capita, after those in Iran, Pakistan and Sweden. There are still major issues with their integration and thus we are against additional inclusion.”
Regarding the subject of the Taliban regime returning to power for the first time since 2001, the young Chancellor described it as “unacceptable”and as the “complete undoing of progress made in Afghanistan in the last 20 years on human rights and women’s rights.”
Moreover, while admitting that the ongoing events in Afghanistan are ‘dramatic’, Kurz warned against ‘repeating the mistakes of 2015.’ To which he tweeted, “The people from Afghanistan should be helped by our neighbouring states. The European Union must secure the external borders and fight against illegal migration and human traffickers.”