Elissa Slotkin tweeted the following:
"12/ Five hours after the Prime Minister signed off, the Foreign Minister met the plane at the airport in Tirana. Most of the Afghans had barely heard of Albania when the landed there - exhausted to start the second chapter of the story."Read on Twitter
Here are other recent tweets from Elissa Slotkin:
"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
"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
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