Sunday, 22 August 2021 (YJC)_ The Austrian Chancellor has explicitly stated in an interview that his country opposes the admission of Afghan refugees fleeing the current situation in Afghanistan.
Conservative Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurtz announced today (Sunday) that Vienna is currently opposed to accepting any Afghan citizens fleeing Afghanistan in the current situation.
According to Reuters, Austria accepted asylum for more than one percent of its population during the European immigration crisis between 2015 and 2016, and Kurtz focused his policy on tightening asylum seekers, and since 2017 So far, he has won all of his country's parliamentary elections.
As the EU seeks to take action on those Afghans who have helped Afghanistan over the past 20 years since the US-NATO invasion of Afghanistan, Kurtz has emphasized that he does not accept the entry of Afghan refugees into Austria.