The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announces that the Italian Embassy in Kabul, led by Ambassador Vittorio Sandalli, who returned to Italy yesterday from Afghanistan, has been immediately reconstituted at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, along with the other European diplomatic representations redeployed to their homeland, and is already operational. In close coordination with its European partners, it monitors the situation on the ground, also in view of this afternoon’s meeting of EU Foreign Ministers.
Furthermore, an Italian diplomatic unit stationed at Kabul airport continues to be operational, in close coordination with the Italian and international military chain.