The Russian defense ministry and EMERCOM are preparing a humanitarian operation in the coming days to provide emergency aid to Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, the Russian president's special representative for Afghanistan and director of the second department of Asia at the foreign ministry, said about at an online conference on Monday.
"By presidential decree, another humanitarian operation is being prepared to provide emergency aid to the Afghan people. The ministry of defense and the ministry of emergency situations are preparing such transport aviation flights, this work is in full swing. There are a lot of logistical issues that they are dealing with with the support of the foreign ministry. I am not ready to announce the exact date, it is better to ask the ministry of defense or the ministry of emergency situations, but my feeling is that it will happen in the very near future," the diplomat said.
Participants of the meeting in the Moscow format on Afghanistan on October 20 called for urgent humanitarian and economic aid for the country's reconstruction. They also proposed the launch of a collective initiative for an early convening of a representative international donor conference under the aegis of the United Nations.
The Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation) launched a large-scale operation to establish control over Afghanistan after the US announced in the spring of this year the decision to withdraw its armed forces from the country. On August 15, president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani left the country and the radicals entered Kabul without a fight. On September 6, the movement declared its control over the whole of the territory of Afghanistan, and on September 7, it announced the composition of the provisional cabinet, the legitimacy of which was not recognized by any country.
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Based on materials from TASS