“We are convinced that the United Nations should play a central coordinating role in consolidating international efforts in the Afghan direction,” Lavrova noted.

He expressed the hope that the collective appeal of the countries participating in the Moscow format to the leadership and all members of the UN, promulgated at the end of the talks in Moscow, "will be heard."

Earlier it was reported that Lavrov was holding a meeting with a delegation of the radical Taliban * before the meeting on Afghanistan in the Moscow format.

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