There is an Italian who manages the hectic days at Kabul airport, stormed by fleeing Westerners and by Afghans who want to leave the country. This is Stefano Pontecorvo, former Italian Ambassador to Pakistan and now Senior Civilian Representative of NATO in Afghanistan.
It is Pontecorvo, 63, who is the reference of all world diplomacy for what is happening in Kabul. Pontecorvo also tweeted from there, specifying that the day after the scenes of despair that were recorded at the airport, the situation is calmer.
“The role that NATO plays in keeping the international airport operational and allowing the country not to be isolated from the world is essential,” writes the ambassador on Twitter.
Pontecorvo is a long-time diplomat with great experience in the area and in Afghanistan in particular, having closely followed the role of the Italian contingent in Herat. From 2013 to 2015, before being sent to lead the Islamabad embassy, he was diplomatic advisor to Defense with the ministers Di Paola, Mauro and Pinotti. “He followed the events in Afghanistan directly, given the presence of the large Italian military contingent,” reads his curriculum vitae on the NATO website.
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