Taipei, March 14 (CNA) Two Taiwanese nationals have successfully left Bahrain on a charter flight arranged by the Japanese government, Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) said Saturday, as part of ongoing efforts to help Taiwanese stranded in the Middle East return home.<\/p>\n
The two Taiwanese nationals were accompanied on a land journey to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on Thursday by staffers from the Taipei Trade Office in the Kingdom of Bahrain, MOFA said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Upon arrival in the Saudi capital, they were put on the same flight as a group of Japanese nationals Japan was also helping to evacuate, according to MOFA.<\/p>\n
The flight chartered by Japan departed from Riyadh on Friday and landed at Narita International Airport in Tokyo on Saturday morning, MOFA said.<\/p>\n
MOFA expressed its sincere gratitude to the Japanese government for the assistance provided to the Taiwanese citizens.<\/p>\n
“As partners in the Indo-Pacific region … this collaboration fully demonstrates the sincere friendship between Taiwan and Japan as they support each other in times of emergency,” the ministry added.<\/p>\n
The two nationals, who have reached Tokyo and are expected to return to Taiwan in a few days, are among the 486 Taiwanese citizens in the Middle East who have requested assistance from MOFA’s overseas missions.<\/p>\n
As of Friday, 1,935 nationals had returned to Taiwan since regional tensions escalated following strikes by the United States and Israel on Iran on Feb. 28, according to MOFA data.<\/p>\n
Since then, MOFA has raised travel advisories in Israel and Iran to the red level — urging those still there to leave immediately — and placed neighboring Gulf countries, including Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Kuwait under an orange alert.<\/p>\n
The ministry has advised that Taiwanese refrain from traveling to those countries for the moment.<\/p>\n
(By Chao Yen-hsiang) <\/p>\n
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