The American diplomat, Madeleine Albright confirmed this Sunday evening that Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia and Canada have offered to shelter to Afghani professionals or collaborators, who helped the Western military or peacekeeping missions during their stay in Afghanistan.

Through a post on her personal Twitter account, Albright emphasized that “efforts should be made to save as many lives as possible in Afghanistan”.

“As the US works to evacuate those at special risk from the Taliban, I am grateful to Albania, Canada, Kosovo and North Macedonia for offering refuge to Afghan allies, especially women & civil society leaders. I hope and expect others to follow,” wrote Albright.

Albright used to serve as the Secretary of State at the US Department of state from 1997-20021, under the Clinton administration. Later, she worked at the Council of Foreign Relations.

The Canadian minister of immigration, Marko Mendicino said on Friday that “Canada is planning to house up to 20 thousand Afghanis,” whose lives are at risk by the Taleban due to their engagements with the pro-American government.

Earlier today, both the Albanian PM Edi Rama and the Kosovo president, Vjosa Osmani, publicly confirmed that they have been conducting on-going discussions with the US regarding this matter but none of them gave any specific figures regarding the number of migrants they’d be willing to take in or the period of time, when this is thought to happen, but Rama did emphasize that they will be in Albania only as a transit country because “their final destination will be the United States”.

After the retreat of American troops from Afghanistan, it only took the self-proclaimed Islamic state and Taleban militant groups to carry out their insurgences and take over the majority of government strongholds, including the capital city, Kabul.