and ensure when they arrive after this arduous journey that they have emergency assistance to help cope. many are going through the transit centres, but are staying with local communities or finding accommodation and they need support for their basic needs, for food, shelter and for health care and so on, so the humanitarian response is in support of all of these actions that are needed to receive refugees and house them while they are displaced, but we have also seen strong commitments. the eu has activated a temporary directive that will make sure they can regularise their stay, and it does require an emergency response and also to make sure that they have access to health care. we are talking about the emergency base, but as long as the situation deteriorates, we will see more displacement and it will be harder
background checks before they continue on to their final destination in the united states or another country, or one of our nato allies as well. and so, from asia to africa, from europe to the western hemisphere, nations are making generous offers to support resettlement efforts. i have been in personal contact with the leaders of many countries, including germany, spain, italy, the uae and many others. they are making vital contributions. i want to thank them to for their support and to discuss how we can continue to coordinate our efforts in afghanistan moving forward and that is the reason i continue to contact them. i want to again thank all of our partners for continuing to stand together. we have also activated the first stage of what is referred to as the civil reserve air fleet to help with the onward movement of evacuees from each of these transit centres. military aircraft will get them to the centres, but then we will get the centres, but then we will get the civil reserve f
programme that was designed in the wake of the berlin airlift after world war ii, to use commercial aircraft to augment our airlift capacity. this is a voluntary programme for our commercial airlines and we are grateful for those airlines and us air carriers who are supporting this. this will only use three or four planes from each of the major carriers, vast fleets of aircraft, so there should be no or minimal effect on commercial air travel and we will stay in close coordination with our partners to mitigate any impact. the civil reserve flights will be helping facilitate the safe movement of people from transit centres like the one in germany to the united states or to another country. none of them will be landing in kabul. the american airline planes be going to any countries. inaudible as this unfolds, i want to be clear