Participants in the working group of the Collective Security Treaty Organization's (CSTO) Council of Foreign Ministers exchanged views on the military and political situation in Afghanistan. This was stated in a statement published Friday on the organization's website.
"On April 1, 2022, the 35th meeting of the working group on Afghanistan at the CSTO media center was held with the participation of CSTO Deputy Secretary-General Samat Ordabaev," the report reads. - "The participants of the meeting held a detailed exchange of views on the military and political situation in Afghanistan. They also considered information on cooperation of member states of CSTO in training law enforcement, customs and anti-narcotic structures. They summed up the results of the group's work in the first half of 2022".
During the meeting, Ordabayev stressed that "the Afghan problem continues to be very critical for the international community".
"Considerable attention was paid to this issue in the framework of the meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council (December 2021), as well as on February 16 this year at the meeting of the UN Security Council on the cooperation between the UN and the CSTO in ensuring global security. The timeliness of the third Ministerial Conference of Afghanistan's neighbors (March 31 this year, China) on the promotion of post-conflict reconstruction and the normalization of the socio-economic situation in this state was stressed," the organization noted.
"At the end, the CSTO adopted the minutes of the meeting and the work plan of the Group for the second half of 2022," the organization said.
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Based on materials from TASS