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The Philippines haa agreed to a United States request to allow the entry and temporary housing of limited number of nationals from Afghanistan, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Tuesday.Under the arrangement with Washington, the DFA said the US government "is supporting necessary services for those Afghans temporarily in the Philippines, including food, housing, security, medical, and transportation to complete visa processing" before resettlement to the United States.
Citing the Philippines’ historical tradition of providing sanctuary to refugees in the past, Philippine Ambassador to Washington Jose Manuel Romualdez earlier said the US sees the country as a place “they can trust and will do such humanitarian act” of allowing them to process all of these people who worked with the US government in Afghanistan.The arrangement was finalized three years after the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan.
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