New Zealand will send a “special representative” to the Middle East to help extract more than 1000 New Zealanders and visa holders stranded in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan. Bernat Armangue/AP Taliban fighters escort women's march in support of the Taliban government outside Kabul University, Afghanistan, in September. The detail of the “second phase” of the effort to evacuate New Zealand citizens, residents and visa holders from Afghanistan came after weeks of deliberations within the Government. ROBERT KITCHIN/Stuff Foreign Minister Nanaia Mahuta has appointed a diplomat to oversee ongoing extraction of New Zealanders and visa holders from Afghanistan. However, not one of these visa holders had been evacuated during the airlift in August.

Source: Stuff October 06, 2021 21:22 UTC