The Russian side provided humanitarian aid to Afghanistan in 2020 for a total of $3 million, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday in an interview with the Tula News Service on Instagram.
The diplomat noted that Russia has regularly provided support to the Islamic Republic, particularly through the UN World Food Program (WFP).
"Since 2020, total [humanitarian] aid [to Afghanistan] has amounted to $3 million," she said. - "And in the conditions of the already pandemic, Russia supplied medical equipment to Afghanistan, among other things".
According to Zakharova, between June and November 2020, Russia provided more than 1 ton of humanitarian cargo to Afghanistan as part of its aid to combat the coronavirus pandemic. "This is 150 sets of single-component test systems for 15 thousand tests, reagents for laboratory diagnosis, non-contact infrared thermometers, masks, overalls, antiseptics and so on," the representative of the diplomatic mission noted.
For further systematic work in this direction, the diplomat pointed to the need to "wait for the institutions of governance to work" in the country. "The leadership of Afghanistan has left the territory of this country, and the state apparatus does not work in principle," the diplomat continued. - "So everything else, except security issues and the primary contacts that are ongoing and that our ambassador is talking about, everything else, of course, will depend primarily on building or recreating the institutions of state apparatus, on the resumption of their work".
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Based on materials from TASS