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| Taliban invited to Moscow for a meeting on Afghanistan |
| 2023-07-17 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] A representative of the Taliban movement (an organization whose activities are banned in the Russian Federation) was invited to Moscow to participate in a discussion of the situation in Afghanistan. This was announced on July 16 by Assistant Director for Public Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan Hafiz Zia Ahmad . "Russian Ambassador Dmitry Zhirnov the day before [July 15] met with [Afghan Foreign Minister] Mavlawi Amir Khan Muttaki and provided information on the upcoming Moscow format meeting on Afghanistan, and also invited the Foreign Minister to take part in this meeting," Ahmad was quoted as saying by link to the message in the social network "Interfax". According to him, at the July 15 meeting in Kabul, the head of the Afghan Foreign Ministry expressed his gratitude for the invitation to Moscow. Muttaki called the Moscow format an important platform for resolving the situation in Afghanistan. Muttaki reminded Zhirnov that representatives of the Afghan government had already come to Moscow for talks in 2021, but last year the Moscow format meeting took place without them. Regarding the meeting to which he was invited, the Afghan Foreign Minister told the Russian diplomat that this event should be used in the context of diplomatic relations. The Taliban, an organization banned in Russia, has been in power in Afghanistan since August 2021. She came to power as a result of a coup d'état, which occurred against the backdrop of the departure of the American contingent from the republic. In 2022, the Moscow format held a meeting in November, and in 2021 in October. At the talks in 2021, a delegation headed by Deputy Chairman of the Interim Government of Afghanistan Abdul Salam Hanafi came to Moscow . According to the results of the meeting, the head of the third political department of the Afghan Foreign Ministry, Zakir Jalali , all participants in the meeting supported the decision on the need to unfreeze the assets of Afghanistan, which Washington froze. The Moscow format includes Russia, India, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. It has been functioning as a platform for resolving the situation in Afghanistan since 2017. |
| Posted by:badanov |