India and Russia meet to discuss over Taliban issue in Afghanistan

Last updated on September 9th, 2021 at 01:17 am

In a meeting between NSA Ajit Doval and his Russian counterpart Gen Nikolay Patrushev, they discussed the implications of Taliban’s coming to power in Afghanistan for India to the impact on Russia and the Central Asian region. The officials stated that during India-Russia consultations, attention was paid to intensifying joint work of both country’s special services and military bodies. An exchange of views took place on the military, political and socio-economic situation in Afghanistan.

The Russian Embassy further added that they also touched upon humanitarian and migration problems in this country, as well as prospects for Russian-Indian joint efforts aimed at creating conditions for launching a peaceful settlement process based on an intra-Afghan dialogue.

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During the talks, the importance of defining parameters of the future state structure of Afghanistan by the Afghans themselves, as well as the need to prevent the escalation of violence, social, ethnic, and confessional contradictions in the country, were emphasized. This meeting was significant since after Taliban seized the control of the war-ravaged country on August 15, and announced its new caretaker government earlier this week, they have simply devoid all the women in the decision-making process.

India and Russia also discussed humanitarian and migration issues in Afghanistan along with prospects of the Russian-Indian joint efforts beamed at creating conditions for driving a peaceful settlement process based on an intra-Afghan dialogue.  A spokesperson from the ministry asserted that in addition, the Sides agreed to coordinate the approaches of Russia and India in multilateral formats on the Afghan settlement.

The importance of defining parameters of the future state structure of Afghanistan by the Afghans themselves, as well as the need to prevent the escalation of violence, social, ethnic and confessional contradictions in the country, were emphasized.