Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States of actively supporting terrorist organizations in Afghanistan. He voiced this during a visit to the 201st Russian military base in Dushanbe, his website reports. Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
According to the minister, difficult events are taking place there after the “coalition” escaped from Afghanistan. Lavrov believes that for 20 years the “coalition” did nothing for the creative development of the country, but left it only in the growing threat of terrorism and sharply increasing volume of drug trafficking, from there it spread all over the world. .
Lavrov called the recent statements by US Ambassador to Tajikistan Manuel Micaller about Washington’s desire to establish a peaceful national dialogue in Afghanistan as “false”.
“It is known with certainty that the USA actively supports the remaining members of ISIS in Afghanistan (the organization is banned in Russia) and Al-Qaeda (the organization is banned in Russia) and other terrorist structures affiliated with them. The aim is simple. The aim is not to let Afghanistan calm down, as they have done in other cases here in the Caucasus at the end of the last decade. It is in the interests of the United States that some kind of destabilization processes constantly occur here, ”the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
Lavrov stressed that the desire of the US to return its military infrastructure to neighboring countries is not accidental. He stated that in order to return to Afghanistan and again prevent “the countries of the region from living their own way”, the Americans deliberately “muddy the waters”, impose their own rules on them and constantly violate them completely. International law.
Earlier, it was reported that the West occasionally spoke as part of the visit of the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Sergey Lavrov, to the 201st Russian military base in Tajikistan. tries to find Additional instructions for opening the second and third fronts against Russia.