Russia: Taliban is a partner of regional countries in the fight against ISIS

Zamir Kabulov, director of the second Asian department of the Russian Foreign Ministry and Putin’s special representative for Afghanistan, said that the United States and the United Kingdom support ISIS and a number of other terrorist groups through special services and proxy forces, and in this way they try to Taliban have harmed and forced them to submit to their will.

Kabulov added in a conversation with “Sputnik” that the West’s action to seize the assets of Afghanistan and Limiting the financial and economic capabilities of the Taliban has made the ruling body unable to deal with terrorist threats in Afghanistan with its full capacity.

He stated Moscow is helping the Taliban in training anti-terrorism forces, he stated that the Taliban is a partner of all countries in the region in the fight against ISIS.

The director of the second Asian department of the Russian Foreign Ministry also expressed hope that Tajikistan will soften its position on the issue of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization-Afghanistan contact group.

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