“There are reports of the situation in the Panjshir Gorge, where the forces of resistance of the Vice-President of Afghanistan, Mr. Saleh and Ahmad Masud, are concentrated.
But this only makes our position even more consistent, "said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a press conference following a meeting with NJL Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangush in Moscow.
According to him, in a situation when the whole of Afghanistan was engulfed in a civil war, Moscow advocated the need for an urgent transition to a nationwide dialogue with the participation of all opposing Afghan forces and all ethno-confessional groups.
“In the same way, now that the Taliban have taken, in fact, power in Kabul, in most other cities, in most provinces of Afghanistan, we are ... will deal with the development of agreements on the final arrangement of this long-suffering country, ”the minister said.
On August 17, a source said that the forces of the Afghan vice president are fighting the Taliban in Parwan province north of Kabul and in the Panjshir region, and 10,000 troops are being sent to the region under the leadership of Marshal Abdul-Rashid Dostum.
One of the leaders of the resistance units, the son of Ahmad Shah Massoud, called on the Western countries to supply them with weapons and ammunition.