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Macron: Afghanistan Must Avoid Becoming 'Sanctuary for Terrorism' Again
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2:19Now PlayingPresident Emmanuel Macron promised on Monday that France would not abandon Afghans who worked for the country, from translators to kitchen staff as well as artists, activists and others under threat with collapse of the government and the Taliban in the seat of power.
Protecting those who helped France over the years is an "absolute emergency," he said.
Two military transport planes with special forces were due to arrive in Kabul "in the coming hours," Macron said in a pre-recorded speech.
The exact timing was not immediately clear since the United States temporarily shut down the airport to civilian and military flights following deadly chaos on the tarmac with seven people known dead.
The aircraft would fly from a base in Abu Dhabi, a transit stop for France's evacuees.
Macron did not say how many people would be involved in the evacuation.
It has already progressively pulled out some 1,400 Afghan employees and families, he said, and evacuated citizens on a charter flight in July.
Paris withdrew all its soldiers from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, but continued work with civil society.
The French president vowed that the fight against "Islamist terrorism in all its forms" would not end.
"Afghanistan cannot again become the sanctuary for terrorism that it was," Macron said.
Stability can only come about through political and diplomatic actions to be defined in the days ahead with the U.N.Security Council, he said.
"We will do everything so that Russia, the United States and Europe can cooperate efficiently because our interests are the same," he added.
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