March 4 (Reuters) - Following are details of countries evacuating nationals and employees from Libya or closing operations because of the political turmoil.
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COUNTRIES EVACUATING THEIR OWN CITIZENS:
BOSNIA: So far half of the 1,500 Bosnians living in Libya have been evacuated, the Foreign Ministry said, and Bosnian authorities will organise another flight to evacuate workers from Sirte.
BRITAIN: HMS York arrived at Benghazi to pick up any remaining British nationals wishing to leave. A Rapid Deployment Team will be on board to provide consular assistance, the Foreign Office has said. There are up to 150 British nationals left in Libya.
CANADA: Canada has moved additional aircraft into the region that can reach Canadians working in more remote areas.
GERMANY: German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle said on Tuesday 46 Germans remained in Libya, 36 of which are in Tripoli. More than 600 Germans have already left Libya.
-- Germany has shut its embassy in Libya for security reasons, it said on Thursday, responding to an uprising against the rule of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi.
INDIA: A quarter of about 18,000 Indians, most of them employed in the oil, construction and health sectors in Libya, have been brought out after the government chartered cruise ships, and through special flights of the state carrier Air India.
PHILIPPINES: Up to 9,231 Filipinos have left Libya, of which 859 have arrived in Manila. About 26,000 Filipinos work mostly in the medical and oil and gas sectors in Libya.
ROMANIA: The Foreign Ministry said it has so far managed to bring back 735 Romanians from Libya during a 10-day operation, together with 100 other foreigners -- including 70 European Union citizens aboard Romanian miliary planes.
TURKEY: The prime minister's office said in a statement on Wednesday that a total 21,505 people have been evacuated from Libya to Turkey on 67 planes, five ships, one frigate and via transport organised by private companies. Of that total, 2,982 people were not Turkish citizens. The total number of evacuees will reach 22,554 once a ferry boat with 1,049 passengers, including 888 foreigners, arrives in Istanbul from Tripoli, the statement said.
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES HELPING TO TRANSPORT EGYPTIANS:
* -- Italy's airforce began flights on Friday to repatriate Egyptian workers to Egypt. Defence Minister Ignazio La Russa said three C-130 transport planes would make three flights each per day, carrying about 100 people per flight.
-- Spain said on Thursday the first of three daily humanitarian aid flights has left for the Tunisian-Libyan border to transport Egyptian refugees from the region. The aim is to transport 4,000 people from the region in the course of a week, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
-- France is providing six flights every day for the next days, the French ambassador to Tunisia, Boris Boillon said.
-- Charters provided by Britain have also begun a shuttle to Egypt.
SITUATION AT BORDERS:
-- Italy said it was preparing for a potential mass exodus of migrants escaping turmoil in North Africa after a rise in flows of illegal immigrants from Tunisia, the initial destination for tens of thousands who have fled Libya.
-- Almost 200,000 migrants have now crossed into Tunisia, Egypt and Niger.
-- Egyptian authorities say 43,000 of their nationals have crossed out of Libya and 30,000 have already been taken home, according to Firas Kayal of the UNHCR.
-- The International Organisation for Migration is beginning its first evacuation of migrants out of Benghazi. Nearly 5,500 migrants have so far been identified at various locations in Benghazi at the port and surrounding warehouses, mostly from Bangladesh, India and Sudan but also including small groups of Syrians, Ghanaians and other nationalities.
-- Other groups of Filipinos, Vietnamese, Sri Lankans, Nepalese as well as Sub-Saharan Africans are stranded in large numbers in Sirte, Tripoli, Wazem and Misrata as well as elsewhere. Many are without documents and passports which had been taken by their employers. (Reporting by Reuters bureaux; Compiled and edited by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit)
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