Sergei Lavrov: We see promising signs from the Taliban

Russia is in no hurry to recognize the power of their movement at this time Taliban in the Afghanistan, but is in favor of dialogue between the various political forces in Afghanistan, he said. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

“We are not in a hurry with her either recognition“like other countries,” Lavrov said, as broadcast by APE BPE. He added that his Chinese counterpart has the same opinion Wang Yi with whom, as he said, he spoke yesterday.

At the same time, the Russian Foreign Minister said that Russia finds out positive signs on the part of the Taliban regarding the further development of Afghanistan. “We see promising signs from the Taliban that they want to have a government in which other political forces are involved, that they are ready to continue the process, including those related to education, girls’ education. “and generally with the operation of the state apparatus, without blocking the way for those officials who worked for the previous government of President Ghani,” he noted.

He noted that Russia hopes that dialogue of the Taliban with the leaders of the political forces of Afghanistan will be completed with the formation of a transitional government and supports the “universal dialogue in which all the political and ethnic-religious forces of Afghanistan will participate”.

Lavrov said Russia “supports the call of the former president of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai to start such a dialogue in which the Uzbeks and the Khazars and the Tajiks and all the other ethnic groups and all the religious groups must take part “as, as he said,” there is no other way “.