Kabul – The Foreign Ministry of Russia has said that the priority of its country is to avoid the increase of terrorist threats from Afghanistan across the borders with Russia.
Sputnik news agency reported on Monday, (November 1) that the Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov in an interview with 24 TV said that Moscow attempts to prevent instability in the neighboring countries of Afghanistan.
“The entrance of terrorist threats and drugs from Afghanistan to the borders of Russia needs repression inside Afghanistan,” Sergey added.
In the meantime, Lavrov stressed that the security and stability in the neighboring countries of Afghanistan are extremely essential to Russia.
At the beginning of the Moscow summit, Sergey had earlier said that the risk of terrorism is a huge threat to the neighboring countries of the region which the activities of the terrorists and narcotics smuggling are also a serious threat to Afghanistan’s neighbors.
Meanwhile, the Russian president Vladimir Putin had said at the Commonwealth of Nations summit that engagement with the Taliban is a requirement; however, they should not be recognized hastily.