Elissa Slotkin tweeted the following:
"11/ Amazingly, @USAmbAlbania Yuri Kim and I worked on Iraq together over a decade ago, and I reached out to her. We formally asked Prime Minister @ediramaal & Foreign Minister @xhacka_olta of Albania to accept out Afghans, and give them safe harbor."Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Elissa Slotkin:
"9/ So why did this group end up Albania? Frankly, kismet. When I couldnt confirm that I could get them out on a military plane, we bartered with other remarkable groups to get a charter plane to take them out."Read on Twitter
"10/ Once we got them through the gates of the airport, we had to figure out where to take them and thats when my staff and I started googling. We figured out which countries were taking in Afghans, and who their US ambassadors were."Read on Twitter
"7/ only happened because a broad network of people around the world some of whom I knew and others Ive still never met felt a deep connection to these Afghans & stepped up to help."Read on Twitter
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