The Taliban will be arriving to Brussels in the next few days to meet with European Commission counterparts eager to deport Afghan nationals.
The pending arrival was confirmed to EUobserver on Monday (22 June) by Audrey Jacquiez, a spokesperson for Belgium’s deputy prime minister.
“We don’t know when they will arrive but it’s a question of days,” she said.
Jacquiez said five visas were issued last week. The visas would be valid for an “extremely short” time. Asked if this meant several days, she said “not even”.
The commission has been courting the Taliban for months, dispatching the deputy head of its home affairs department, Johannes Luchner, to Kabul in January.
