Ambassador Stefano Pontecorvo: Italy ‘not abandoning’ those left in Afghanistan

Newswire

Rome: The Italian NATO Ambassador in Afghanistan Stefano Pontecorvo has said that Italy was “not abandoning” those it had been unable to evacuate from Afghanistan.

Italy’s final evacuation flight of refugees from Afghanistan landed at an airport in Rome recently carrying 58 Afghan citizens.

Ambassador Pontecorvo said authorities “did our best, under these circumstances” to evacuate as many people as possible. “I think we went, we crossed the line between possible and impossible to get in everybody we could,” he said.

He said he was “unsatisfied” that not everyone could be brought back and he would continue working to bring many of those people back to Italy.