Russia will send humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, no matter how negotiations with the Taliban go * – Politics – News of St. Petersburg
Russia is working on issues related to sending humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, Russian Ambassador to Kabul Dmitry Zhirnov said on October 20. At the same time, a message that sending aid does not depend on the results with a delegation that arrived from Kabul to Moscow.
“Working on it. As soon as the date will be announced, – Zhirnov told reporters, answering a clarifying question, whether help will be sent in any case. – I think yes “.
In addition, according to the Russian ambassador to Kabul, a new export flight from Afghanistan is being worked out.
As for the status of the Taliban movement (recognized as terrorist in the Russian Federation since 2003 – Ed. Note) in Russia, it is too early to talk about revision and the possibility of its recognition following the results of the current meeting of the Moscow format, Zhirnov added.
In early October, Zamir Kabulov, the special envoy of the Russian president for Afghanistan, director of the second department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, announced that the provision of humanitarian aid to Kabul was being worked out. The content of the goods and their volumes have not yet been reported.
“Almost half of Afghanistan’s population – 18 million people – is vitally dependent on humanitarian aid. Every third does not know how he will receive food next time. More than half of all children under the age of five are likely to be malnourished next year, ”- spoke in early autumn, UN Secretary General António Guterres after the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan.
Against this background, in Tajikistan, not far from the border with Afghanistan, military maneuvers of the CSTO member states continue as part of the exercises, where, among other things, actions are being worked out to destroy illegal armed formations that invaded a member of the CSTO member state.