Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Shanghai has traditionally been involved in Afghanistan’s problems.
On Thursday (4 July), the Kremlin published Mr. Putin’s speech at the Council of Heads of the Shanghai Organization member states in Astana; In this speech, the President of Russia supports the idea of resuming the activities of the Shanghai-Afghanistan Contact Group.
President Putin said: “We consider it true that the Shanghai Cooperation Organization has traditionally been closely involved in the problems of Afghanistan; “We support the idea of resuming the activities of the SCO-Afghanistan Contact Group. We think that this will help to further normalize the situation in this country.”
The leader of the Kremlin earlier in the trip to From Pakistan out of necessity relation with the Islamic Emirate had spoken; The president of Russia continues was said that the Taliban is the current power in Afghanistan
Previously, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has removed the names of officials of the Islamic Emirate from the list of terrorist groups was announced.
