MOSCOW, July 18 (Sputnik) – Afghanistan’s statement that Russia should apologize to the Afghan people for the decade-long Soviet military operation in Afghanistan “raises nothing but surprise and bewilderment,” Russian Foreign Ministry’s Second Asian Department Director Zamir Kabulov told Sputnik on Wednesday. Earlier in the day, Afghan Ambassador to Russia Abdul Qayyum Kochai said that
MOSCOW, July 18 (Sputnik) – Russia could play a positive role in the development of the Afghan settlement by pushing the Taliban to start talks with Kabul, Afghan Ambassador in Russia Abdul Qayum Kuchai said on Wednesday. “From time to time we hear that the Russian government denies any involvement in financing, supporting, supplying weapons
Tolo News: The practice by the National Unity Government (NUG) of not appointing Afghan ambassadors and other key diplomats on merit, will affect the country’s foreign standing, a number of analysts have warned. President Ashraf Ghani recently appointed the former chief of Independent Election Committee Ahmad Yusuf Nuristani as ambassador to Spain and earlier his uncle Abdul
Tolo News: President Ashraf Ghani during his election campaign pledged to appoint qualified individuals regardless of their political affiliation to government institutions and Afghanistan’s diplomatic missions. “We have not promised the sharing of government, the government does not belong to us, this is supposed to be an asset of the nation,” Ghani said at the time. But instead,