This happens only in India: Foreign nationals too were evacuated from Yemen by Indian Warship
New Delhi, April 8: Exemplary of brotherhood and humanity, India has not restricted its rescue operations in Yemen to just Indians. Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar has said that the government is trying to rescue the citizens of foreign countries as well. "4,000 people evacuated so far from Yemen. We will bring back citizens of other countries as well,"he said.
Meanwhile, 26 countries have requested India to rescue their nationals too. A Tweet by the spokesperson of the MEA-Syed Akbaruddin- mentioned the names of the countries. However, till date nationals of 23 countries have been evacuated. The details can be followed in the Tweets below.
We
will
end
r
air
evacuation
efforts
from
Sana'a
tomorrow,
8th
April.
All
who
want
to
avail
should
leave
tomorrow.
Spread
the
word
around.
—
Syed
Akbaruddin
(@MEAIndia)
April
7,
2015
232
persons
from
26
countries
evacuated
by
India
from
Yemen.
Efforts
continuing.
pic.twitter.com/kFajqxEfhz
—
Syed
Akbaruddin
(@MEAIndia)
April
7,
2015
Responsivess
to
international
community.
List
of
countries
whose
nationals
have
been
evacuated
by
India
from
Yemen
pic.twitter.com/Jj4gpKlO37
—
Syed
Akbaruddin
(@MEAIndia)
April
7,
2015
American
Embassy
Notice
in
Yemen
http://t.co/7s9sejQ5hn
.India
helps
Americans
trapped
@SushmaSwaraj
@MEAIndia
pic.twitter.com/V0eE6Q36gC
—
SankarK
(@SMedia4)
April
7,
2015
Thank
you
Excellency
@RajeevShahare
for
evacuating
the
stranded
Maldivian
student
Suhail
Ali
from
Yemen
@EducationMv
—
Abdulla
Nazeer
(@NazeerP1)
April
7,
2015
A
thousand
coming
back
tonight
to
India,
if
all
goes
well.5
flights
planned
from
Djibouti
to
India
carrying
those
evacuated
from
Yemen.
—
Syed
Akbaruddin
(@MEAIndia)
April
7,
2015
India
helped
evacuate
also
Germans
out
of
Yemen.
Thank
you
India!
@narendramodi
@MEAIndia
@SushmaSwaraj
—
Michael
Steiner
(@Amb_MSteiner)
April
7,
2015
India's
evacuation
efforts
from
Yemen
enter
final
phase
-
Happy
faces
all
around
in
the
Control
Room
at
Djibouti.
pic.twitter.com/6XfBwYuspg
—
Syed
Akbaruddin
(@MEAIndia)
April
8,
2015
Meanwhile, Minister of State for External Affairs General VK Singh has landed himself in trouble with a controversial statement saying,"This job isn't as exciting as going to the Pakistan High Commission," despite overseeing the evacuation process from the Djibouti port himself.
[Read: Pakistan to fly 11 evacuated Indians from Yemen to New Delhi]
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