"The sooner the Taliban enter the family of civilized peoples, the easier it will be to maintain contacts, to communicate" with them, Vladimir Poutine said on Friday of the new heads of Afghanistan.
The Russian president thus hopes to be able to “influence them in one way or another” and “ask them questions”.
He finally advocated "civilized relations" and "respect for civilized rules".
The previous Taliban regime, until its fall in 2001 after the American intervention following the September 11 attacks, was guilty of terrible abuses and a policy of repression of women that it justified by law. Islamic.
"Russia has no interest in the disintegration of Afghanistan, if it happened there would be no one to talk to", further noted the Russian president.
Russia's conciliatory vis-à-vis the Taliban
Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia's Far East, Vladimir Putin blamed the United States for the ongoing "disaster" in Afghanistan.
“They spent 1.5 trillion dollars and what is the result?
There isn't one, ”he said.
The Russian authorities have adopted in recent weeks a fairly conciliatory attitude towards the Taliban, noting their victory while calling for a "national dialogue" to form a representative government.
Moscow, on the other hand, still considers the group to be "terrorist", even though Russia has been in dialogue with it for years.
The Russian authorities are above all worried for the security of the former Soviet republics of Central Asia, bordering Afghanistan, and to see the emergence of new jihadist groups inspired by or supported by the Taliban.
The Kremlin also wants to prevent a regional influx of refugees and a new surge in opium and heroin trafficking.
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