Moscow does not rule out the possibility that after the end of winter, in the spring, there will be a large-scale resistance to the Taliban who have seized power in Afghanistan. The statement was made in an interview with TASS by the Russian President’s special envoy for Afghanistan and head of the Second Directorate of Asia at the Russian Foreign Ministry, Zamir Kambulov.
“Unfortunately, there is such a possibility,” Kabulov said, noting that “the Taliban government and the international community at this time, in the current period, are making every effort, first and foremost, to stabilize the socio-economic situation within the country.” country ».
Kabulov said Western stabilization of Afghanistan’s assets as well as increased socio-economic and humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan by foreign partners could contribute to that stabilization. At the same time, he expressed the view that the West is using the freezing of Afghanistan’s assets to impose its own terms and positions on the Taliban. “We have the impression that Westerners will continue to use this lever cynically to impose their own terms and positions on the Taliban,” he said.
The Russian official stressed that “provocative actions must be ruled out, both at home and abroad, which incite ethnic strife and lead to the emergence of active armed actions.
On January 13, anti-Taliban demonstrations erupted in the northern Afghan province of Farjab on the occasion of the arrest in the city of Mazar-i-Sharif (Balkh province) of the prominent radical military commander Mahdum Alam, who belongs to the Uz ethnic group. In the wake of this, representatives of the Uzbek community in the city of Meimene, the administrative center of Farjab province, took to the streets and began demanding that the Taliban leadership release the military commander immediately. According to the local newspaper Hast-e Subh, one civilian was killed and one was injured during the protests.
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