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Ambassador’s plea to allow Afghans into EU countries

n other times, Mirwais Samadi would have welcomed a campaign to deter his compatriots from opting to become illegal migrants and embarking on the often dangerous trek from Afghanistan to Europe. By far the worst part of his job as Afghanistan’s ambassador to Athens – apart from the strange

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