An urgent convening of the UN Security Council, requested by representatives of Afghanistan, will be useful only if it helps to start business negotiations on the situation in this country, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told reporters on Friday.
"Now the Afghan representatives are asking for an urgent convening of the UN Security Council. This will be useful if it meets not just to talk [the situation] and take out the evil on each other, so to speak, but if it meets with a prepared result, which will help to start business negotiations, rather than trying to maneuver," the minister said.
Lavrov said Russia favors a political settlement in Afghanistan based on UN Security Council decisions and regrets that the Taliban (banned in Russia) are trying to solve the situation in the country by force.
"We are for an Afghan settlement with participation of all political, ethnic and confessional forces of the country. We are for the processes that are approved in the UN Security Council, which unfortunately have now stalled. The governmental delegation has not been very interested in seeing the negotiations restarted for a year and a half or two years now. Against this background, again unfortunately, the Taliban have decided to try to resolve the situation militarily. They are conquering more and more cities and counties. This is all bad, wrong," he said.
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Based on materials of TASS