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    List of countries evacuating nationals from Lebanon

    AFX International Focus
    July 19, 2006 Wednesday 4:37 PM GMT

    PARIS (AFX) - Here is a list of the main countries organising the
    evacuation of nationals from Lebanon. The number of nationals includes
    dual passport-holders, who in many cases make up the vast majority.

    -- CANADA: 40,000 nationals. Six charter ships due to arrive capable
    of taking up to 900 people each.

    -- PHILIPPINES: 30,000 mainly migrant workers. Manila planning possible
    evacuation, recommending nationals seek shelter in Catholic churches.

    -- UNITED STATES: 25,000 nationals. Some 124 flown out already,
    1,059 out of 2,240 Americans set to leave on Wednesday evacuated on
    cruise ship to Cyprus. Nine US warships off Lebanon to guard against
    terrorist attack.

    -- AUSTRALIA: 25,000 nationals. About 200 evacuated by bus to Damascus,
    others by ferry. Charter ship expected Thursday to take

    250 priority cases to Cyprus. One-hundred already taken by Britain.

    -- BRITAIN: 22,000 nationals. Sixty-three taken out Monday, 180
    priority cases taken to Cyprus Tuesday. 5,000 expected to be

    evacuated by six Royal Navy ships in coming days.

    -- FRANCE: 20,000 nationals. Eight hundred arrived in Cyprus on charter
    ferry, put on onward flights to France. Further evacuations expected
    on French navy, charter ships.

    -- BANGLADESH: 10,000 mainly migrant workers. Dhaka asked Geneva-based
    International Organisation for Migration to help

    evacuation.

    -- SWEDEN: 4,500 nationals. Expects 3,500 out by Wednesday/Thursday.
    Charter ship with more than 1,000 Swedes expected in Cyprus Thursday.

    -- GERMANY: 3,000. Seven hundred already left. Three thousand waiting
    to leave. Embassy chartered more than 50 buses to take most to
    Damascus, where charter flights waiting.

    -- EGYPT: 2,300 evacuations organised since Monday. Hundreds taken
    by bus to Damascus, flown home.

    -- RUSSIA: 1,500. Three Russian airplanes left Moscow on Wednesday
    for Syria to pick up several hundred Russians evacuated from Lebanon.
    A first group of 270 people, mainly women and children, crossed into
    Syria on Tuesday and about 1,000 more people were to follow.

    Those being evacuated include not only Russians but citizens of other
    ex-Soviet states including Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine,
    Russian officials said.

    -- ARMENIA: 1,200. Armenia said it had begun evacuating its citizens
    from Lebanon.

    -- ITALY: 1,000. Several hundred brought out by plane from Damascus
    and on board Italian navy destroyer.
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