Talks Between Austria and the Taliban on Deportations to Afghanistan

PeopleOther ♦ Published: January 24, 2025; 00:34 ♦ (Vindobona)

The Austrian Ministry of the Interior has held talks at the official level with representatives of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan to explore the possibility of returning rejected asylum seekers. A delegation consisting of two high-ranking officials from the ministry was in the Afghan capital Kabul for this purpose.

Austria began talks with the Afghan Taliban regarding refugees. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons /Callum Darragh/ CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication

According to the Ministry of the Interior, the talks were exclusively “technical-operational” and were neither diplomatically nor politically motivated. The main aim was to return Afghans who had committed crimes to their country of origin.

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