Question 13786 — foreign policy

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Ms. Constance Le Grip alerts the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs to the situation of Afghan interpreters who served as auxiliaries to the French armies. This question follows question no. 9909 published in the Official Journal on June 26, 2018 and which has not yet been answered. Other written questions, dealing with the same subject, are still pending, such as question no. 7309 of April 10, 2018. These different questions alerted the French Government to the urgent nature of taking into consideration the situation of the 700 Afghan interpreters who accompanied the French forces during the 13 years of presence of the French armies in Afghanistan. Indeed, since the signing of the Treaty of Friendship on January 27, 2012 between the French Republic and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the gradual withdrawal of French forces, these interpreters have find themselves in an untenable situation, threatened in their country. The relocation process initiated in 2015 made it possible to grant visas to some of them to come to France. However, many of them are still in Afghanistan, threatened along with their families. Sunday October 21, 2018, Mr. Mohammad Qader Dawoudzai, a former French army interpreter who had been twice refused a French visa, died in an attack on October 20 October 2018 in Kabul. The MP would like to know the reasons which motivated the refusal to grant the visa. She asks him if other people are in this situation and if the Government intends to quickly review these visa applications. Finally, she asks him what the Government intends to do for the wife and three minor children of this former member of the local civilian recruitment staff (PCRL) who was Mr. Dawoudzai, and for the other former auxiliaries of the French army who today find themselves in danger in their country.

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