Putin’s strong message to the West on the Taliban issue

Desk report:  Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on the West to take steps to prevent the country from collapsing after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. On the other hand, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Boris Johnson has said that he will work with the Taliban if necessary. President Putin held a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the Kremlin on Friday after the fall of the Western-backed Ashraf Ghani government and the capture of Kabul by Taliban fighters a week ago. At the time, he said, almost the entire part of Afghanistan was under the control of the Taliban movement. This is real. With this reality in mind, we must move forward and take steps to prevent the collapse of the Afghan state. Vladimir Putin also criticized the “irresponsible policy” of imposing “values ​​from outside” on war-torn Afghanistan at the time. He said what the people of a country will or will not do; You (outside power) cannot impose the criteria of what their political life will be like. The Russian president also stressed the need to take steps to prevent “terrorists” from entering neighboring countries in the guise of “refugees” from Afghanistan. He added that his country had no interest in spending time thinking about the outcome of the US military operation in Afghanistan. Rather, it is important to establish good and neighborly relations with Afghanistan. Moscow has also expressed optimism about Kabul’s new leadership. The country is also trying to maintain contact with Taliban leaders to avoid instability in Afghanistan’s neighbor Russia. According to the Russian news agency Tas, US National Security Adviser Jack Sullivan said last Thursday that President Joe Biden had hoped that US troops would be able to repatriate US citizens from Afghanistan by early August, according to preliminary plans. Speaking at the White House on Friday, Biden said the process of evacuating people from Kabul was risky. President Biden said the United States had rescued 13,000 people from Afghanistan. The way people are being evacuated on airplanes is hard work. The withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan is a priority. Those 50,000 to 65,000 Afghans who want to leave the country will be similarly evacuated. On the other hand, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that the UK will work with the Taliban if necessary. He was speaking to the media in London on Friday. “I want to reassure the people that we will continue our political and diplomatic efforts to find a solution for Afghanistan,” he said. We will also work with the Taliban if necessary. Earlier, Johnson had said, “The Taliban will be evaluated, not in words.”