Kathmandu, Nepal (AHN) – Following the footsteps of other South Asian countries, the Nepal government on Tuesday asked its Cairo-based mission to help bring back Nepalis from the ongoing Libyan uprising.
India has also set up a situation room, while Bangladesh has also decided to bring back its trapped citizens if the situation remains tense.
Middle East and Arab countries have hosted more than 2.5 million Nepali blue collar workers since Nepal plunged into internal conflict in 1998.
According to Nepal’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) , approximately 3,000 Nepalis are currently working in Libya in the construction and industrial sectors.
The Nepali mission in Cairo has reached out to the Egyptian Foreign Ministry to issue temporary entry visas to Nepali citizens fleeing Libya.
“Those who are affected and want to come back, we will make arrangement and bring them back here,” the assistant spokesperson at MoFA, Harish Chandra Ghimire, told All Headline News.
“We are concerned about the violent protest taking place in Libya,” a MoFA statement said. “As of now; no casualty has been reported to the Nepali nationals. We have constantly receiving feedback from our Cairo based mission and other sources about the condition of Nepali citizens. We have already initiated shifting affected Nepali from Libya to secure places, particularly Egypt. The MoFA, Ministry of Labor and Transport Management, foreign employment agencies, Libyan employment agencies and Nepali mission in Cairo are working closely.”
Another 44 Nepali nationals working for the Ramco Co. in Benghazi city are languishing in a camp with a shortage of food and asked to rescue immediately, the Human Rights Organization said in a statement.
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