Almaty (UNA-OIC) – An aircraft with UN staff members aboard arrived in Almaty, Kazakhstan, on August 22, from Afghanistan, in a second flight in one week.
The UN reported that among the 120 passengers evacuated to Kazakhstan, there were members of several Afghan nongovernmental organizations, who cooperated with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) and other UN agencies accredited in the war-torn country.
The UN began to temporarily relocate some people from its agencies to Almaty last week, when a Kazakh military plane brought the first group of 141 UNAMA staff members to the city from Kabul on August 18.
UNAMA head Deborah Lyons said at the time that 60 of her team members will remain in Kazakhstan to remotely coordinate the Mission’s activities in Afghanistan.
