Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov appreciated the fulfillment of promises given by representatives of the Taliban movement (prohibited in Russia) in Afghanistan. Reports about it “Interfax”.
It is about the statements of radicals on the end of the fighting, the amnesties of the participants in the confrontation and the need for a nationwide dialogue for the formation of the authorities. “While it is all withstanding,” said the Foreign Ministry at the meeting of President Vladimir Putin with representatives of United Russia.
he added that on August 21, the Russian Foreign Ministry established contacts with the former President Hamid Karza and the head of the National Consent Council Abdullah Abdullah.
“and even in the north, in a Panjscher gorge, where Tajik leaders announced that they continue to confront the Taliban – the first reports today were that contacts were established with them,” Lavrov added.
Earlier, the Director of the Information and Press Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharova said that the victory of Taliban in Afghanistan is a fact that the foreign states need to be recognized.