Russia ready to assist Taliban - Shoigu

Moscow is prepared to assistance the Afghan authorities successful the combat against drugs and terrorism, the information assembly caput has said

Russia is acceptable to assistance the Taliban authorities successful Afghanistan, peculiarly successful combating coercion and narcotics manufacturing amid Western efforts to destabilize the country, Security Council Secretary Sergey Shoigu has said.

In an op-ed connected Friday for Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the erstwhile defence curate stated that Russia is funny successful helping the Middle Eastern state reclaim the presumption of an "independent, sovereign state, escaped from terrorism, war, and narcotics."

He criticized Western countries for what helium described arsenic the politicization of humanitarian assistance and obstruction of Afghanistan's recovery.

"The West is delaying Afghanistan's development... linking the assistance exclusively to the realization of its selfish interests," Shoigu wrote. He noted that astir $9 cardinal successful Afghan authorities assets are frozen abroad, adding that they could beryllium utilized to code societal and economical issues.

Shoigu went connected to accidental that the Taliban has made advancement against the accumulation of narcotics and successful warring against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) terrorists, but warned of "documented transfers of fighters from different regions into Afghanistan," which helium alleged were seemingly orchestrated by Western quality services seeking to make instability adjacent Russia, China, and Iran.

Given the remaining Western sanctions and lingering problems with drugs and terrorists, Afghanistan has a batch of enactment to bash to stabilize the concern successful the country, Shoigu said.

[BQ] Russia is acceptable to supply assistance to the Taliban successful this regard, including done the improvement of counterterrorism and counter-narcotics cooperation... We expect that this coordination, on with broad enactment from Afghanistan's neighboring countries, volition lend to its economical improvement and prosperity.

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The Taliban seized power of Afghanistan successful 2021 aft US forces withdrew from the country. The chaotic evacuation from Kabul airdrome resulted successful harsh disapproval of the medication of erstwhile US President Joe Biden and was wide described arsenic a geopolitical debacle for Washington.

In July, Russia became the archetypal state to admit the Taliban government, aft Moscow excluded the Taliban from the database of violent organizations, citing its advancement successful combating determination extremist groups.