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Moscow Format joint statement talks of 'new reality of Taliban coming to power, irrespective of official recognition'

Moscow, Oct 20 (UNI) The Moscow Format consultations on Wednesday called on the current Afghan leadership to take further steps to form a truly inclusive government and stated that “further practical engagement with Afghanistan needed to take into account the new reality of the Taliban coming to power, irrespective of the official recognition" by the international community.
A joint statement said, the third meeting of the Moscow Format Consultations on Afghanistan was held with the participation of special representatives or senior officials from Russia, China, Pakistan, Iran, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, as well as a high-level delegation of the interim Afghan government.
From India, JP Singh, Joint Secretary in charge of the Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran desk in the Ministry of External Affairs, participated.

The sides reiterated their respect to the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Afghanistan, and reaffirmed their commitment to Afghanistan as a peaceful, indivisible, independent, economically developing State, free of terrorism and drug-related crime and respecting the basic norms in the human rights area.
"It was stated that further practical engagement with Afghanistan needed to take into account the new reality, that is the Taliban coming to power in the country, irrespective of the official recognition of the new Afghan government by the international community."
The countries called on the Afghan leadership to take further steps to improve governance and to form a truly inclusive government that adequately reflects the interests of all major ethno-political forces in the country. This would be a fundamental prerequisite for the completion of the national reconciliation process in Afghanistan, it said.
They also called on the current Afghan leadership to “practice moderate and sound internal and external policies, adopt friendly policies towards neighbors of Afghanistan, achieve the shared goals of durable peace, security, safety, and long-term prosperity, and respect the rights of ethnic groups, women and children”.
“Being concerned about the activities of proscribed terrorist organizations in Afghanistan, the sides reaffirmed their willingness to continue to promote security in Afghanistan to contribute to regional stability”.
The participating countries were pleased to note the reaffirmation by the interim Afghan government of its previous commitments to prevent use of the Afghan territory against its neighbours, other States in the region and the rest of the world.
They expressed deep concern over the deteriorating economic and humanitarian situation in Afghanistan, and expressed confidence in the need for the international community to mobilize consolidated efforts to provide urgent humanitarian and economic assistance to the Afghan people in the post-conflict reconstruction of the country.
Significantly, it said that “In this context, the sides proposed to launch a collective initiative to convene a broad-based international donor conference under the auspices of the United Nations as soon as possible, certainly with the understanding that the core burden of post-conflict economic and financial reconstruction and development of Afghanistan must be shouldered by troop-based actors which were in the country for the past 20 years”.
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