“I will return to my country in the near future,” Ghani reports to TASS.

He stressed that he plans to continue to make efforts "to achieve justice for Afghans."

On August 15, the head of the Supreme Council of Afghanistan for National Reconciliation, Abdullah Abdullah, confirmed that the President of the Republic, Ashraf Ghani, had left the country.

The vice-president of the republic, Amrullah Saleh, said that in accordance with the Afghan Constitution, he is the acting president of the country.