The Slovenian Prime Minister stated: the EU and Slovenia have no obligation to help and finance all the refugees on the planet, instead of them protecting their own country.
"The European Union (EU) will not open a humanitarian or migration corridor for Afghan refugees and will not allow a repeat of the 2015 migration crisis"
Slovenian Prime Minister Janez Jansa wrote on his Twitter page on Sunday.
"We will not allow the 2015 strategic mistake to be repeated. We only help those people who helped us during the NATO mission and the EU member states that protect our external borders," he underlined. In another Twitter post, he wrote:
“If women can organize and fight against the Taliban, then men should too. The EU and Slovenia have no obligation to help and fund all the refugees on the planet, instead of them protecting their own countries.”
Ljubljana previously indicated that it is ready to accept five Afghan refugees who have cooperated in the past twenty years
with the EU representation in Kabul, as well as another 14 who helped the Slovenian mission in Afghanistan. They added that all other refugees should be helped by Afghanistan's neighboring countries. The radical Islamist Taliban entered Kabul without a fight on August 15 and took control of the Afghan capital within a few hours.
Shortly before that, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled abroad and the government collapsed. Western countries are evacuating their citizens and diplomatic mission staff, as well as Afghan citizens who previously helped NATO troops and EU institutions, through the Kabul airport.
(MTI)
