As Taliban fighters in Kabul announce talks to form a new government, one of Russia’s top diplomats has said that Moscow will be watching the situation closely to determine whether any new leadership can be deemed legitimate.
Speaking to the Rossiya 24 channel on Monday, President Vladimir Putin’s envoy for Afghanistan, Zamir Kabulov, said that there were hopes for constructive relations now that the American-backed president, Ashraf Ghani, had gone into exile. “If we compare how easy it is to negotiate as colleagues and partners, then the Taliban have seemed to me for a long time much more prepared for negotiations than the puppet Kabul government,” he said.
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