MOSCOW, 17 Sep. It is necessary to build a dialogue with Afghanistan along the line of the expanded troika, work on this line is already underway, said Russian President Vladimir Putin. «I would consider building a dialogue optimal through the expanded troika mechanism for Afghanistan. And work in this direction is already underway,» Putin said at a joint meeting of the leaders of the SCO and CSTO countries.
Putin called for an agreement on the position on the recognition of the Taliban government In early August, the Taliban (the Taliban movement *) intensified their offensive against the government forces of Afghanistan, entered Kabul on August 15 and declared the next day that the war was over. The last two weeks of August from the airport of Kabul, which was under the protection of the US military, there was a mass evacuation of Western citizens and Afghans who collaborated with them. On the night of August 31, the US military left the Kabul airport, ending the nearly 20-year US military presence in Afghanistan. On September 6, the Taliban announced that Panjshir, the last of the 34 Afghan provinces, had come under their control in fighting. The next day, the composition of the interim government of Afghanistan was announced. It will be headed by Mohammad Hasan Akhund, who served as foreign minister during the first Taliban * rule and has been under UN sanctions since 2001. Amir Khan Mutaki became the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mohammad Yakub became the head of the Ministry of Defense, and Mullah Sarajuddin Haqqani became the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. All of them are members of the Taliban movement, and ethnically belong to the Pashtun tribal associations of Durrani and Gilzai. * A terrorist organization banned in Russia.
