“We are using, and I am using, working with allies and partners who think in much the same way, all the diplomatic, economic and aid instruments we have to do everything we can to defend them (Afghans - 

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) of basic rights, ”TASS quoted him as saying at a briefing.

Blinken also noted that the United States and its allies will continue to work in this direction.

Earlier it was reported that the United States is discussing the issue of future control over the international airport in Kabul with its allies and with representatives of the radical Taliban movement.

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 "Taliban" - the organization was recognized as terrorist by the decision of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation of February 14, 2003.