ROME, Aug. 28 (CGTN) -- Italy, which holds the rotating presidency of the Group of 20, contined to push for a special G20 meeting on Afghanistan as its last evacuation flight left Kabul on Friday.

The military C-130 plane was expected to land in Rome early on Saturday, bringing back "all the Italians who asked to be repatriated," Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said.

He confirmed that some 4,900 Afghan nationals who wanted to leave their country had been evacuated by Italian forces during the operation.

At a joint press conference in Rome on Friday after meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, Di Maio reiterated his country's plan to hold an extraordinary G20 summit on Afghanistan in September to outline a global strategy.

"Afghanistan has been at the core of our talks today... in this context, we see the dialogue with Russia as essential," Di Maio explained.

He added that Italy's push to organize a special G20 meeting on Afghanistan stemmed from the belief that only "a comprehensive, coherent and shared action can be effective with the new authorities in Kabul."

"We believe Moscow is a key player in dealing with the current crisis and, in a longer perspective, in achieving a unified international approach," he noted.

"We deem that the G20 could be the right platform for a common management of the crisis, which has to be shared with the countries that will bear the largest migrant influx, that is the neighboring countries."