The Shanghai cooperation organization (SCO) and Collective security treaty organization (CSTO) member countries will base their policy on Afghanistan on the commitments assumed by the Taliban (banned in the Russian Federation), Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Tuesday.
"The further joint line [of the CSTO and SCO countries] depends on the extent to which the Taliban will be ready to actually fulfill their earlier commitments with regard to the subsequent arrangement of this country," she said.
Zakharova stressed that CSTO and SCO member states are united in their view that the United States and its NATO allies should bear full responsibility for the post-conflict socio-economic reconstruction of Afghanistan as a first step in managing the humanitarian situation. "As for the SCO, the member states are determined to more actively engage the SCO-Afghanistan contact group, as well as to use the accumulated experience of interaction with this country as an observer state in the organization," the diplomat added.
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Based on materials from TASS