The Latest: Flight of Afghan refugees arrives in Albania

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Albania, a NATO member country since 2009 and aspiring to join the European Union soon, will be one of the transit hubs for the Afghans evacuated from their country.
61% : The security council also said in the meeting that Afghanistan's swift takeover by the Taliban "may have security consequences" for Romania, "due to the dangers posed by extremism, terrorism, the export of instability in the region, drug and arms trafficking, (and) illegal migration."
52% : He said Iran has hosted some 4 million Afghan refugees in the past four decades and it has supported the people of Afghanistan.
50% : TEHRAN, Iran --
50% : Raisi spoke on Thursday during a meeting with visiting Pakistani foreign minister to Tehran, saying other nations should only play the role of a "facilitator for establishing a broad-based and inclusive government with presence of all people and groups."
37% : -- The European Union still has a skeleton staff in Kabul working to evacuate people as the end of airlifts from the chaotic airport looms.
35% : Iran has seen the presence of U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Iraq as a threat on its doorstep.
35% : Unlike in 1998, when Iran came to the bring of war with the Taliban over the killings of several Iranian diplomats in Afghanistan after the Taliban came to power, Iranian state media have in recent weeks claimed that the Taliban have changed and pose no threat to Iran.

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