Officials are working to speed up the operation to get remaining UK nationals and their local allies out of Afghanistan, Britain’s ambassador to Kabul has said.
Sir Laurie Bristow said they would put “everything we can” into the mission in the coming days amid fears that time for people to leave may be running out.
“We are putting everything we can into getting British nationals and Afghans who worked with us in the past out of Afghanistan to safety,” he said in a video message posted on Twitter.
We are working flat out to bring British nationals and our Afghan colleagues to safety. We’ve already helped hundreds of people to leave on military flights. pic.twitter.com/Cv3fgsE8IO
— Laurie Bristow (@laurie_bristow) August 18, 2021
“Yesterday we got about 700 people out. We are trying to scale up the speed and pace over the next couple of days.
“We will put everything we can on this for the next few days and try to get out everyone who we need to get to safety as soon as we can.”
Sir Laurie has relocated…
