Foreign Ministry submits list of citizens needing urgent evacuation
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Kathmandu, June 8
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) has ready a listing of 24,148 Nepalis throughout 30 completely different locations who must be rescued urgently.
The Foreign Ministry developed the precedence listing of stranded Nepalis overseas who must be evacuated based mostly on the statistics supplied by Nepali embassies and missions overseas.
The ministry at present submitted the report back to the COVID-19 Crisis Management Centre (CCMC) based mostly on which the federal government is anticipated to start out rescuing the stranded individuals from June 10.
However, the listing submitted by MoFA to CCMC doesn’t embody Nepalis stranded in India.
“Based on particulars offered by our missions overseas, 24,148 stranded Nepalis must be evacuated within the first section.
However, this quantity could change after we really begin rescuing Nepalis overseas because the coronavirus disaster is progressively easing throughout varied nations,” mentioned Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali.
According to him, the federal government will quickly begin the rescue mission with due precedence accorded to stranded Nepalis in labour locations. “Nepalis throughout 30 completely different locations require speedy rescue within the first section and the federal government will begin reaching out to our residents in all these nations,” mentioned Gyawali, including, “However, extra precedence shall be given to labour locations because the density of Nepali individuals is greater there.”
The authorities plans to start out evacuating stranded Nepalis from June 10 by means of at the very least eight flights per day. The authorities shall be utilizing eight plane of Nepal Airlines Corporation (NAC) and Himalaya Airlines to rescue its residents from overseas.
As per the report, Nepalis stranded in Bahrain, United Kingdom, United States of America, Israel, Uganda, Saudi Arabia, Nigeria, South Sudan, Sudan, Thailand, Singapore, Cambodia, Laos, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Qatar, Morocco, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Pakistan, Nordic nations (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden), Oman, Kuwait, Cyprus, Maldives, Australia and United Arab Emirates must be rescued within the first section.
As per the report submitted by MoFA to CCMC, the very best variety of stranded Nepalis that must be rescued are from Malaysia (6,425) whereas lowest quantity that must be evacuated are from Laos (two).
“The rescue mission will start based mostly on the precedence listing whereas others shall be rescued progressively,” added Gyawali.
Though the federal government has allowed completely different nations to repatriate Nepalis stranded of their land, it has not begun the evacuation course of by itself.
As many as 194 Nepalis from the United Arab Emirates and Myanmar had arrived house on Friday on flights operated by the governments of the respective nations.
A model of this text seems in e-paper on June 9, 2020, of The Himalayan Time
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