Turkey's plans to provide security at Kabul airport after the US withdrawal from Afghanistan violate the agreement with the Taliban, the Special Representative of the Russian President for Afghanistan, Director of the Second Asian Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry Zamir Kabulov told RIA Novosti.
On the previous day, Jake Sullivan, National Security Advisor to the US President, announced that Turkey was planning to secure the airport of Kabul after the US withdrawal. He said the two presidents Joe Biden and Tayyip Erdogan talked about it at a meeting this week.
"Of course it does," Kabulov said in response to a related question.
He doubted, however, that US-Turkish agreements on air harbor security would have any effect on the security situation in Afghanistan as a whole.
Earlier Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar announced that Ankara had offered to secure the airport of Kabul in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of the US troops under a number of conditions put forward.
The US administration announced that by May 1 it would begin and complete its withdrawal from Afghanistan by September 11 in full coordination with its allies. In 2020, the US and representatives of the radical Taliban signed in Doha the first peace agreement in more than 18 years of war. It provides for the withdrawal of foreign troops from the Middle Eastern country within 14 months and the start of an inter-Afghan dialogue after the exchange of prisoners.
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Based on materials from RIA Novosti