IEA severs ties to certain Afghan missions in West

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) says consular services provided by Afghan embassies in Canada, Australia and nearly a dozen European countries are not acceptable.

The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (IEA) consistently strived to defend the legitimate rights of Afghan nationals residing abroad, particularly in European countries, and provide them with easy consular services, the MoFA said in a statement.

The MoFA has repeatedly urged Afghan political and consular missions in European countries to engage with Kabul to at least address consular services-related issues of Afghans and provide them with better services.

“Unfortunately, the actions of most of the missions are carried out without coordination, arbitrarily and in explicit violation of the existing accepted principles,” the statement added.

The statement informed all Afghans residing abroad that after his notice, consular services such as deeds, endorsements, NOCs, issuing passports, passport renewal stickers, visa stickers, etc., from the missions in London, Belgium, Berlin, Bonn, Swiss, Austria, France, Italy, Greece, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Canada and Australia are no longer accepted by MoFA and relevant departments.

“The MoFA bears no responsibility toward these documents and no actions will be taken thereof.”

All Afghans living abroad and foreign nationals can visit the IEA political and consular missions in other countries, other than the above-mentioned missions, to access consular services, the statement concluded.

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