Afghanistan's "face-to-face" with its neighboring foreign ministers, what is the impact of the "Tunxi Dialogue"?

　　China News Agency, Beijing, April 1 (Xie Yanbing Xing Chongma Shuaisha) At the end of March, Tunxi, a small town in Anhui, wrote a series of diplomatic stories around the Afghanistan issue.

　　From March 30th to 31st, the third Afghan Neighboring Foreign Ministers' Meeting was held here, the "China-US-Russia +" consultation mechanism meeting on the Afghanistan issue was held, and the first Foreign Ministers' Dialogue between Afghanistan's neighboring countries and the Afghan Interim Government was also held back-to-back.

　　The Afghan issue is an important topic on the international peace and security agenda.

After the U.S. withdrawal, Afghanistan is in a critical period from chaos to governance.

As the "heart of Asia", its security situation and domestic and foreign policies affect itself and the world.

The outside world believes that the "Tunxi Dialogue" series of meetings has an important impact on the communication and coordination of the Afghan issue.

　　Judging from the time node, this "Tunxi Dialogue" is quite meaningful.

The Afghan Neighboring Foreign Ministers' Meeting has formed a fixed mechanism since 2021, especially since the second Neighboring Foreign Ministers' Meeting was held in October last year, the international situation has undergone major changes.

Zou Zhiqiang, a researcher at the Middle East Research Center of Fudan University, pointed out that the situation in Afghanistan still concerns the common interests of neighboring countries and the world, and should not be forgotten due to the emergence of new hot issues such as the Ukraine crisis.

　　As far as the current internal situation in Afghanistan is concerned, it still faces multiple challenges such as humanitarian, economic and security, and alleviating the humanitarian and economic crisis is still the most urgent task.

Zhu Yongbiao, director of the Afghanistan Research Center of Lanzhou University, believes that the current humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan needs to be solved urgently, even more complicated than the refugee problem brought about by the Ukrainian crisis.

　　Observers pointed out that the landing of this series of meetings in China also has special significance.

Not long ago, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi just visited Afghanistan. Immediately after his foreign visit, he took a field visit to the Afghan interim government to establish and manage the situation and thought about solving problems. Sitting down at the round table shows that China is making positive efforts to bring together the joint efforts of neighboring countries and support the peaceful reconstruction of Afghanistan.

　　The Chinese side also innovated the form and specially added the "Afghanistan Neighbors + Afghanistan" Foreign Ministers' Dialogue. Acting Foreign Minister of Afghanistan's Interim Government Mottaki attended. This is also his first visit to China.

Zhu Yongbiao pointed out that in the past, international cooperation mechanisms involving Afghanistan often bypassed the Afghan interim government, resulting in high costs and low efficiency, making it difficult to solve practical problems.

Inviting the most important parties to participate is conducive to resolving differences through dialogue and consultation and building consensus to the greatest extent possible.

　　Zou Zhiqiang also noted that the high evaluation of China's role can be clearly seen from the feedback from the participants. For example, representatives of many countries believed that this series of dialogues deepened the understanding of the real situation in Afghanistan.

"At the moment of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, China's ability to invite representatives from many countries to gather offline also reflects that China's role in the Afghanistan issue is active, proactive and constructive."

　　From the specific content, the outside world believes that this series of meetings focused on security and development, and emphasized the improvement of Afghanistan's "hematopoietic capacity" from multiple perspectives, which has far-reaching significance for solving the Afghan issue.

　　For example, during a collective meeting with the representatives of the "China-US-Russia+" consultation mechanism meeting on the Afghanistan issue, Wang Yi emphasized that the US should take concrete actions on the issue of thawing Afghanistan's overseas assets and lifting unreasonable sanctions.

　　"The freezing of funds has exacerbated the difficulties in the operation of Afghanistan's financial system, reduced the liquidity of Afghanistan's funds, and also reduced Afghanistan's development opportunities, making the already weak 'hematopoietic ability' even worse." Zhu Yongbiao said that such sanctions are illegal and inappropriate. Reasonable and inhumane, there are all harms and no benefits to the reconstruction of Afghanistan.

　　In addition, helping Afghanistan's economic and social development has become the consensus of all participants.

In the two documents "The Third Afghan Neighboring Foreign Ministers' Meeting Joint Statement" and "Afghan Neighboring Countries' Tunxi Initiative on Supporting Afghanistan's Economic Reconstruction and Practical Cooperation", which reflected the results of the meeting, all parties decided to focus on humanitarian assistance, connectivity , economic and trade areas, agricultural development, energy and power, capacity building and other key areas to provide substantive support to Afghanistan.

　　Specific measures such as promoting the extension of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor to Afghanistan and deepening the cooperation of the "Belt and Road" initiative were also mentioned in the Tunxi series of meetings.

In the long run, this will help Afghanistan improve its "hematopoietic capacity".

　　As for the issue of "diplomatic recognition", the key concern of the Afghan interim government, with the help of the "Tunxi Dialogue", the Afghan side introduced its determination to achieve independent development and showed a positive attitude in foreign exchanges. The dialogue released a signal: As the concerns of all parties are more vigorously responded, diplomatic recognition will be "a matter of course".

　　Focusing on the future, the "Tunxi Dialogue" announced the launch of the regular meeting mechanism of the special envoys (special representatives) of Afghanistan's neighboring countries to Afghanistan, established three working groups on politics and diplomacy, economics and humanitarianism, and security and stability, and followed up and implemented the outcomes of previous foreign ministers' meetings. The results are expected to provide more assistance in solving the Afghan issue.

　　"This means that the 'neighboring country plan' will continue to coordinate the interests of all parties and build consensus." Zhu Yongbiao said that whether the "heart of Asia" can be managed from chaos still requires the continuous efforts of all parties to make the "neighboring country plan" take root. .

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