The West, having first created the problem in Afghanistan, now looks for those who are responsible and calls for collective efforts for its solution, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote this on Friday in her Telegram channel, commenting on a speech by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell at the Tashkent conference "Central and South Asia: regional interconnectedness. Challenges and Opportunities".
The diplomat noted that Afghanistan and what Washington has done to it, "treacherously leaving it at a very difficult moment in its history" was a dominant theme at the conference. The diplomat said the Pakistani president spoke about 3 million refugees from Afghanistan that were already in his country. Then Borrell, who represents precisely the countries that have spent 20 years in Afghanistan together with Washington, spoke. "And what do you think he said? He had the courage, looked around at everyone (especially Afghanistan's neighbors who have been suffering the consequences of the unprofessionalism of the collective West for many years) and said that the situation in Afghanistan is a shared responsibility!" Zakharova wrote. - "In the best tradition: first create the problem and then look for those responsible and call for collective efforts."
The diplomat added that that was the case in Libya and Iraq and now in Afghanistan. He spoke about how the European Union wants to be "the key to transformation" and that we need to work even harder so that "the back gets stronger," Zakharova said.
However, according to the Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, the "most successful speech of the high representative of the European Union" was the call for the creation of a "green future" in Afghanistan. The diplomat is not sure that everyone in the region will relate this to the climate agenda.
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Based on materials from TASS