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Vienna. It's a country where the war has been going on for decades. Since the invasion of Soviet forces in Afghanistan in 1979, the fighting is almost permanent. During this long conflict with the participation of external powers, millions of Afghans have left the country. And even today, thousands of people seek their escape salvation. The Afghan Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Faizullah Zaki Ibrahimi, still does not want to see his country and its migration under the lens of war and flight. "We need legal means for young Afghans to work in Europe," the minister told reporters. Ibrahimi was one of many international guests of the 2018 Vienna Migration Conference, to which the International Center for Migration Policy Development (ICMPD) had invited.
"We have a 24 per cent unemployment rate in Afghanistan, and every year between 400,000 and 500,000 young people enter the labor market," Ibrahimi said. At the same time, economic growth is 3% – too little to catch these people. The Afghan government is therefore seeking to open new labor markets. He is currently negotiating with Gulf states, such as the United Arab Emirates, on how Afghans can gain legal access as guest workers. "We could imagine such a thing also with the states of the European Union." This concerns supply and demand. "Europe needs young skilled workers."
"99.9% hear"
For the moment, however, Afghans come to the EU to seek asylum. Extremist groups in Afghanistan target the Hazara ethnic group in particular. The Hazara are mostly Shiites – and therefore from the jihadist point of view of the "infidels". They are repeatedly victims of badbadinations and complain of discrimination.
The Afghan Minister of Labor does not really want to enter into this: "do not generalize". Only a few hundred people are affected. Ibrahimi says 99.9 percent would be able to cope with the situation in Afghanistan. But then admit, "There are problems." The extremists wanted to divide the country.
"It is no secret that Afghanistan is at war – we are fighting not only against the Taliban, but also against 23 world-renowned terrorist networks," the minister said. The extremist Taliban, who ruled the country until 2001, are on the rise again. After an attack that also killed the police chief, the parliamentary elections in Kandahar province were postponed for a week. In the rest of the country will be voted this weekend on the composition of the People's Assembly.
"We are working to bring the Taliban back to the negotiating table," said Labor Minister Ibrahimi. "We can talk to the Taliban, they are Afghans who ultimately have common interests." The minister believes that the many other terrorist groups, who are mainly foreign mercenaries and, according to him, have received money and money. material from other states, as a danger greater than the Taliban.
Tunis strictly against refugee centers
At the same time, Ibrahimi notes at the Migration Conference in Vienna that the end of the war alone will not allow Afghans to stay in the country. "If one day there was to be peace with the Taliban, do you think that the illegal migration from Afghanistan to Europe will end?" No, it will not end until the causes are resolved. "We can not stop people from" dreaming ".
In addition to the Afghan Minister of Labor, the Tunisian Secretary of State for Migration, Adel Jarboui, pleads for the opening of a legal route for work in the European Union at the European Union. The intention of his compatriots – similar to the "guest workers" of the 1960s and 1970s – came to Germany and Austria.
At the same time, he said that Tunisia would not accept the creation of refugee centers for the EU on its territory. "Tunisia is no longer a transit country for refugees.We are not willing to accept EU migrants who have not pbaded through Tunisia," said the secretary of state. State at a joint press conference with the Director General of the International Center for Migration Policy Development, former Austrian Vice Chancellor Michael Spindelegger.
In the EU, it is planned to bring refugees and migrants intercepted in the Mediterranean to landing centers in North Africa. Until now, however, the countries involved such as Libya, Egypt or Tunisia have rejected. Jarboui is clear: "I do not think that these platforms bring an advantage – neither to Tunisia nor to the EU."
("Die Presse", printed edition, 20.10.2018)
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