Dushanbe, Tajikistan: The countries of allied with Russia and China are preparing a series of meetings in Afghanistan Wednesday held in neighboring countries hit by a crisis, Tajikistan.
Moscow and Beijing have moved to affirm themselves as a key player in the region, after a hasty retreat of the United States from Afghanistan and takeover of the Taliban state.
Two regional security blocks led by Moscow and Beijing hold the peak in the capital of the former Soviet Tajikistan, Dushanbe, this week together with other countries present as observers and guests.
Afghanistan, it was very dependent on assistance, facing a new economic crisis after the Taliban takeover, with new authorities could not pay salaries as food prices soared.
The neighbors were wary of the threat of the sustainable refugee crisis, as well as abundant violence if the Taliban failed to control extremist groups with whom they fellowship in the past.
At the Pre-Summit meeting on Wednesday, the Secretary General of the Moscow (CSTO) Collective Security Agreement Organization, Stanislav Zas, called for more humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan.
Shanghai cooperation organization eight members (SCO), led by China, will also meet in Dushanbe this week, with several countries belonging to both blocks.
CSTO and SCO in the past were seen as Moscow and Beijing counters for Western geopolitical domination.
But NATO withdrawals, their rivals, from Afghanistan have offered the biggest test for their regional influence.
The host of Dual Summit Tajikistan has been in the past few weeks causing alarm above the existence of militant groups along the border of his mountains with Afghanistan.
It also criticizes international institutions because it does not do enough to help the authority accommodate refugees.
ZAS acknowledged that the situation at the Tajik-Afghanistan border “was unfavorable” Wednesday and promised that Dushanbe will be given “all the necessary military and military assistance” to fight threats from the south.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu was to hold talks with Tajikistan, strong Emomali Rakhmon on Wednesday, Russian news agency Ria Novosti reported.
Established in 2001, SCO consists of China, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan before India and Pakistan joined the group in 2017.
Iran, whose President of Ebrahim Relisi is estimated at Dushanbe Friday, also wants to join.
Russian Vladimir Putin, XI Jinping and Narendra Modi China all attended SCO Summit virtually.
Afghanistan holds observer status at SCO, but Lavrov Russia said on Wednesday that the Taliban had not been invited to observe the process in Dushanbe.
“Nobody is in a hurry to give full recognition to the Taliban,” said Lavrov.
Moscow has been carefully optimistic about new leadership in Kabul, and has slammed US policy in Afghanistan.
Lavrov said he was “welcomed” some Taliban’s promises, including curbing drug trafficking and preventing attacks in other countries.
“Now we monitor to see how it will be fulfilled in practice,” said Russian Top Diplomat.