Source: DW
Australian PM Scott Morrison said the embassy would be shut in three days amid rising security fears. The embassy will reestablished "once circumstances permit."
A few Australian forces are also expected to leave Afghanistan.
With the US troops pulling out of Afghanistan, Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Tuesday that his country would shutter its embassy in Kabul by the end of the week.
"In light of the imminent international military withdrawal from Afghanistan, Australia will, as an interim measure revert to the model of visiting accreditation for our diplomatic representation to Afghanistan, which we used from the opening of diplomatic relations in 1969 until 2006," said Morrison in a joint statement with Foreign Minister Marise Payne.
Australian PM Scott Morrison said the embassy would be shut in three days amid rising security fears. The embassy will reestablished "once circumstances permit."
A few Australian forces are also expected to leave Afghanistan.
With the US troops pulling out of Afghanistan, Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Tuesday that his country would shutter its embassy in Kabul by the end of the week.
"In light of the imminent international military withdrawal from Afghanistan, Australia will, as an interim measure revert to the model of visiting accreditation for our diplomatic representation to Afghanistan, which we used from the opening of diplomatic relations in 1969 until 2006," said Morrison in a joint statement with Foreign Minister Marise Payne.