{"id":6434,"date":"2021-10-01T09:53:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T09:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=6434"},"modified":"2021-10-01T09:53:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T09:53:58","slug":"russia-urges-tajikistan-and-afghanistan-to-resolve-any-dispute-in-acceptable-manner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/10\/russia-urges-tajikistan-and-afghanistan-to-resolve-any-dispute-in-acceptable-manner\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia urges Tajikistan, Afghanistan to resolve dispute in acceptable manner"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONITORING (SW) \u2013 Russia urged Tajikistan and Afghanistan to resolve any dispute in a mutually acceptable manner, saying it had heard reports they were sending troops to their common border, TASS quoted the foreign ministry in Moscow as saying.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon has refused to recognise the Taliban-appointed cabinet in Kabul and has lashed out at what he describes as violations of human rights in the<\/p>\n

Taliban’s siege of the Panjshir province where opposition forces held rallies.<\/p>\n

The Taliban, in turn, has warned Dushanbe against meddling in Afghanistan’s domestic affairs. Ethnic Tajiks make up more than a quarter of Afghanistan’s population, but Taliban members predominantly belong to the biggest ethnic group, Pashtuns, reported Reuters.<\/p>\n

“We observe with concern the growing tensions in Tajik-Afghan relations amid mutually strong statements by the leadership of the two countries,” TASS quoted ministry spokesman Alexei Zaitsev as saying.<\/p>\n

According to the Taliban’s own information, tens of thousands of Afghan special forces fighters have been deployed in the Takhar province of northeastern Afghanistan, adjacent to Tajikistan, Zaitsev said.<\/p>\n

Russian RIA news news agency cited Taliban spokesman Bilal Karimi as denying the movement was building up its forces at the Tajik border.<\/p>\n

Tajikistan’s foreign ministry was not immediately available for comment on the reports.<\/p>\n

Tajikistan, which hosts a Russian military base, held military parades in two provinces bordering Afghanistan on Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin expressed concern on Wednesday for U.S.-trained Afghan pilots and other personnel being held in Tajikistan after they fled across the border from Afghanistan last month as the Taliban took power.<\/p>\n

In the war’s final moments, the U.S.-backed Afghan Air Force personnel flew dozens of military aircraft across the Afghan border to Tajikistan and Uzbekistan and were detained there, the reports added.<\/p>\n

ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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