Raab wrote in a tweet on Twitter that thousands of people were evacuated from Afghanistan to Britain, through airports in the UAE.
The British Foreign Secretary added that the evacuees from Afghanistan included British nationals as well as Afghans at risk.
Earlier, Agence France-Presse revealed that the UAE is the second country in the world, after the United States, in terms of the number of people it has evacuated from Afghanistan, after the Taliban took control of the capital, Kabul.
According to the newspaper, “The National”, the UAE, which came second in the classification, helped to evacuate more than 20 thousand people who left Afghanistan from Kabul airport.
The source stated that 8,500 people benefited from the planes and airports of the UAE, during their evacuation from Afghanistan abroad.
The UAE helped to evacuate nationals of foreign countries in Afghanistan; Most of them are from the United States, Britain, France, Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Poland, Spain and Mexico.
And last Saturday, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, received a phone call from US President Joe Biden, in which he expressed his thanks and appreciation for the support and facilities provided by the UAE in the evacuation of American diplomats and nationals from Afghanistan. In addition to citizens of friendly countries, as well as Afghans who hold visas for these countries.
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