Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev held talks with Hamdullah Mohib, the Afghan president's national security adviser, on Friday. They discussed, among other things, the situation in the republic against the background of the withdrawal of Western military contingents, the press service of the Russian Security Council office reported.
"Nikolai Patrushev and Hamdullah Mohib focused on the security situation in Afghanistan against the background of the withdrawal of Western military contingents, the aggravation of the military and political situation in the north of the IRA (Islamic Republic of Afghanistan)," the report said.
In this regard, Patrushev and Mohib touched on topics related to the progress and prospects of the inter-Afghan peace dialogue and discussed further cooperation between Russia and Afghanistan on a bilateral basis and within multilateral formats, including through special services and law enforcement agencies. "Issues of combating terrorism and drug-related crime, cooperation in the trade and economic and military-technical spheres were discussed in detail," the Russian National Security Council added.
On April 14, US President Joe Biden said that he had decided to end the operation in Afghanistan, which has become the longest foreign military campaign in American history. The US military contingent is expected to leave Afghanistan by September 11. At the peak of the US operation in 2010-2013, the number of Western forces in Afghanistan exceeded 150,000 people. The main US and NATO combat units were withdrawn from Afghanistan in 2014.
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Based on materials from TASS