Overview

• The agreement integrates two Taliban consular officials into Germany’s consular administration to prepare further deportation flights.
• The officials arrived over the weekend and are completing the usual registration process before assuming their duties.
• Their deployment follows a July 18 charter that returned 81 convicted Afghan nationals to Kabul.
• Berlin maintains no diplomatic recognition of the Taliban and confines interaction to technical contacts with mediation from Qatar.
• The coalition government has reaffirmed its pledge to continue systematic removals of criminal and out-of-status Afghan migrants as outlined in its coalition agreement.