Expelled EU, UN diplomats leave Afghanistan
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The second most senior European Union official in Afghanistan and a top UN political advisor left the country after being expelled by the government for posing a threat to national security.
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ISLAMABAD: German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder left here Monday for Kabul at the end of his two-day official visit to Pakistan. He was seen off at the airport by Minister of State for Finance and Minister-in
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UN push to stop expulsions after Kabul government accuses EU and UN officials of meeting Taliban
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Russia said on Friday it was expelling a Latvian diplomat after the Baltic state expelled one of Moscow's diplomats in a row over an apparent spying case.
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Two officials from the EU and the UN, one of them a British national, are told to leave Afghanistan.
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Sweden said on Friday it had expelled a foreign diplomat, identified by a newspaper as a Libyan who had spied on his countrymen living in the Nordic state. "I can confirm that a diplomat has been asked to leave the country and that he has left the country," a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
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The United Nations and European Union were trying to settle a "misunderstanding" that led Kabul to order the expulsion of two senior European diplomats after claims they contacted Taliban militants.
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The Afghan government expelled two senior European diplomats Thursday on accusations they held unauthorized meetings with Taliban militants, officials said.
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Sudan has expelled the European Union  and Canadian envoys from the war-torn African country, state  radio and Western officials said on Thursday.
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The two senior western diplomats expelled from Afghanistan after being accused of talking directly to the Taliban left Kabul early yesterday amid hopes that they could soon be readmitted
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WASHINGTON - In a surprise announcement, UN Ambassador John C. Danforth said Thursday that he is leaving the key diplomatic post he has held for just five months to return to life in St.
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BERLIN - The general commanding the European Union's police training mission in Afghanistan is returning to Germany three months after his appointment because of wrangling with the European Union, NATO, and officials inside the Afghan Interior Ministry, senior Western diplomats in Kabul said yesterday.
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Afghanistan has ordered two foreign officials to leave the country for threatening national security, a presidential spokesman said, denying his earlier statement that the men had been arrested.
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"We must now take the consequences of the fact that the Ethiopian authorities are upholding their decision and we are therefore making preparations to withdraw six diplomats from our embassy in Addis Ababa (by Sept. 15)"  Ethiopia has asked Norway to withdraw six diplomats from Addis Ababa because of "dissatisfaction" with Norway's conduct in the Horn of Africa, the Norwegian foreign ministry said on Monday. via AlertNet
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KABUL, Afghanistan A UN official says two workers held hostage in Afghanistan are looking forward to some peace and quiet. The women, one from Northern Ireland and the other from Kosovo, took off from Kabul today aboard a UN plane.
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The second most senior European Union official in Afghanistan and a top UN political advisor left the country Thursday after being expelled by the government for posing a threat to national security.
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France announces it will withdraw 200 special troops from eastern Afghanistan within the next few weeks.