Another meeting of the extended "troika" on Afghanistan (Russia, the US, China and Pakistan) will be held on the margins of the 17th extraordinary session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Foreign Ministers Council, scheduled for December 19 in Islamabad, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a briefing on Wednesday.
"The special representative of our country's President for Afghanistan, Director of the Second Department of the Ministry Zamir Kabulov is taking part from the Russian side," she said. - "Another meeting of the extended "troika" on Afghanistan at the level of special representatives is scheduled on the margins of the event".
According to Zakharova, Moscow expects that the corresponding OIC event will make it possible "to compare approaches" to the Afghan problem "with the focus on coordination of regional and international efforts in humanitarian and economic aid" to the republic.
This spring, the United States announced its decision to withdraw its armed forces from Afghanistan, after which the radical Taliban (banned in Russia) launched a large-scale operation to take control of the entire country. On August 15, the Taliban entered Kabul without a fight, and then-President Ashraf Ghani left the republic. On September 6, the Taliban declared that they had established control over the entire Afghan territory, and on September 7 they announced the composition of the provisional government, the legitimacy of which has not yet been recognized by any country.
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Based on materials from TASS