Russia claims that US involvement in Afghanistan is limited to “manipulation and threats.”
MOSCOW:
Zamir Kabulov, the presidential envoy of Russia for Afghanistan, stated on Friday that US influence in the nation only consisted of manipulating the situation through asset freezes and threats.
In Kazan, the capital of Russia’s Tatarstan Republic, Kabulov claimed that the US “fled” Afghanistan and “stole, but this is officially called frozen, more than seven billion Afghan assets.”
“This is the ‘influence’ they have. Additionally, American drones hover over Kabul and Afghanistan, frequently threatening Afghan government officials for their anti-American stance. After a Moscow format conference on Afghanistan, he observed, “If this is considered influence, then Americans do have such effect.
The meeting’s attendees, according to Kabulov, did not anticipate any “breakthroughs.”
“Afghanistan needs inclusive governance for the
He claimed that there were some aspects of this announcement that the Tajik side disagreed with, but he made no additional explanations.
Speaking to the audience, Sergey Lavrov, the foreign minister of Russia, claimed that Western nations were to blame for most of the post-conflict restoration of the war-torn nation’s infrastructure because they had caused “irreparable damage” to the Afghan people.
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Instead, he said, the US has frozen Afghan assets—assets that Afghanistan needs to help its citizens, who endure harsh conditions.
He expressed alarm over moves by non-regional entities to step up their operations and re-establish a military presence in Afghanistan.
No matter what justifications are used, we deem it intolerable when US and NATO military infrastructure returns to Afghanistan and its bordering states.
Zamir Kabulov, the Russian presidential envoy for Afghanistan, told reporters after the conference that Moscow anticipates Kabul taking additional positive efforts to create an inclusive ethnopolitical government.
Future official recognition of the new Afghan leadership may be based on this, he predicted.
Separately, the Taliban claimed on X that acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi stated at the conference that over the past two years the administration increased the war against insurgent groups that were “trained by the invaders” after reconstructing political, security, and economic systems.
Mehmet Samsar, the Turkish ambassador to Russia, addressed the gathering and declared that peace and stability in Afghanistan will be beneficial for the entire region.
He cautioned against becoming smug in the “relative”
