Russia to Abstain From US Initiative on Settling Afghan Crisis

Moscow will not join the US initiative to settle the Afghan crisis, but is prepared to formulate its own negotiations process, Russian Special Presidential Envoy on Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov said.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Afghanistan, Pakistan, the United States, and China are currently exerting their efforts to establish dialogue between Kabul and the Taliban.

“We won’t join the useless events and we’ve already told the Americans. I don’t see any sense in it. Honestly speaking, we’re already tired of joining anything Washington starts. We have told them constantly on the unlikelihood of this or another step, and then the actually do fall apart,” Kabulov told RIA Novosti in an interview.

He said that Moscow “has no desire to participate in what the Americans organize ‘on the fly’ just for their own preelection interests and where they give us the role of supernumeraries.”

“Instead, we’re ready to formulate a process not on the basis of American curves, but objectively and consciously taking into account the interests of all the regional states, including Russia,” Kabulov added.