Hungary has evacuated 173 people, including many at the request of the United States and Austria, from Afghanistan on a plane that arrived in Budapest via Uzbekistan earlier on Monday, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto told a news conference.
He also said U.S. troops at Kabul airport "should not hinder" people whom Hungary wants to fly out from getting into the airport to board the planes.
(Reporting by Krisztina Than and Anita Komuves; Editing by Catherine Evans)
