“For us, what is important is that the border with Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, it is also taken under the control of the Taliban,” Interfax quotes Shoigu.
According to him, the leaders of the organization "promised not to accept any attempts to suppress the border and attacks on adjacent territories."
The minister also stressed that Russia is helping to modernize the armies of the Central Asian countries so that they are ready to repel possible threats from Afghanistan.
Earlier, the deputy director of the Department of Information and Press of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Alexander Bikantov, said that the Afghan military was moving en masse to the territory of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan due to the onset of the radical Taliban movement.
* "Taliban" - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of February 14, 2003.