German Interior Minister Dobrindt will talk to the radical Islamic Taliban about repatriations to Afghanistan. According to the minister, returns to Syria will also take place.
German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt is seeking direct talks with the radical Islamic Taliban in Afghanistan to facilitate the deportation of criminals from Germany. "There is still a need for third parties to hold talks with Afghanistan. This cannot remain a permanent solution," the CSU politician told Focus magazine. The minister's aim is to reach direct agreements with the Taliban to allow for repatriations.
Since the Taliban took power in 2021, there have been no further deportations from Germany to Afghanistan, with one exception: in August last year, with the support of Qatar, 28 criminals were transferred to Kabul. The Taliban government, a radical Islamist government, is quite isolated and so far, official negotiations with it have been rare.
Deportations to Syria remain unresolved
According to the Interior Minister, repatriations to Syria remain an unresolved challenge. In order to make returns to that country possible again, the then Interior Minister Nancy Faeser of the SPD (Socialist Democratic Party) contacted the new interim government shortly before she left office. The government was largely made up of the Islamist militia HTS, which had overthrown ruler Bashar al-Assad. "There are contacts with Syria to reach an agreement on the repatriation of Syrian criminals," Dobrindt declared. However, there have been no results yet.
The 200,000 refugee limit is "clearly excessive"
Dobrindt also called for a significant reduction in the annual number of refugees. The limit of 200,000 refugees per year is "clearly excessive" and long outdated.
This figure was once proposed as a limit by former Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU). However, according to Dobrindt, it has been far exceeded in the last two years, with 600,000 registered asylum seekers, to which 1.2 million Ukrainians must be added.
According to Dobrindt, around 600,000 asylum applications have been submitted in the last two years, including around 1.2 million Ukrainian refugees. "Therefore, today we can no longer work with a theoretical ceiling of 200,000, which, from today's perspective, would be clearly excessive," said the German Interior Minister./ DW (A2 Televizion)
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