Russia, China, Pakistan, and the United States worked together to ensure the new Taliban rulers Afghanistan keep their promises, especially to form truly representative governance and prevent violence from the spread, said Russian Foreign Minister.
Sergey Lavrov said the four countries were related to sustainable. He said representatives from Russia, China and Pakistan have recently traveled to Qatar and then to the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul, to engage with the Taliban and representatives of “Secular Authority” – Former President Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah, who led the Government Council Negotiation which was overthrown with the Taliban.
Lavrov said the temporary government announced by the Taliban did not reflect “overall the overall Afghan community – Etnorrelargus and political power – so we were involved in contacts. They are ongoing.”
The Taliban has promised an inclusive government, a more moderate form of Islamic government than when they last regulated the country from 1996 to 2001, including respecting women’s rights, providing stability after 20 years of war, against “terrorism and extremism”, and stopped armed with groups from using their area to launch an attack.
But the latest movements show armed groups can return to more repressive policies, especially towards women and girls.
“What’s most important … is to ensure that the promises they have said are open to guarded,” Lavrov said. “And for us, it’s a top priority.”
At a broad press conference and in his speech afterwards in the UN General Assembly (UGA), Lavrov criticized Joe Biden’s administration because of his rushed withdrawal from Afghanistan.
He said US islands and NATO “did without consideration of consequences … that there were many weapons left in Afghanistan”. It’s important, he said, that such weapons are not used for “destructive goals”.
Later, in his assembly speech, Lavrov accused the US and Western allies “persistent efforts to reduce the role of the United Nations in resolving the main problem today or to comb them or to make it a tool that can be forged to promote someone’s selfish interests”.
For example, said Lavrov, Germany and France recently announced the creation of alliances for multilateralism “although what structures can be more multilateral than the United Nations”.
‘Tension tension’
The US also surpassed the United Nations, he said, referred to the recent announcement of “Democracy Summit”, said Lavrov, promise of President Biden last week “that the US is not looking for a world that is divided into opposite blocks”.
“It doesn’t need to be said that Washington will choose participants by themselves, so that hijacking the right to decide the extent to which a country meets democratic standards,” Lavrov said. “Basically, this initiative is sufficient in the spirit of the cold war, because it declares a new ideological crusade against all generators.”
Lavrov was asked for the Russian reaction to the anniversary of the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres last week that the world could plunge into a new cold war – potentially more dangerous than the length between the US and the former Soviet Union – except Washington and Beijing improve the relationship “truly dysfunctional”.
He replied: “Of course, we see tensions tightening the relationship between China and the United States.”
He stated “extraordinary concern”, pointing to Biden Administration recently proclaimed the “Indo-Pacific Strategy” – whose purpose, he said, including “blocking China’s development”, denied the South China Sea, and a new US-British agreement -Bar this is to provide nuclear-powered submarines to Australia.
Wider, said Lavrov, the relationship between great forces must be “respectful”. He stressed that Russia “wants to ensure that this relationship will not turn into a nuclear war”.