Asia (bbabo.net), - Afghanistan remains one of the most acute security challenges in Asia, it is necessary to work together to help the country's economic recovery, but first of all, the US must compensate for the damage caused to this state and unfreeze the illegally blocked Afghan funds. This was stated today, October 13, in his speech by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the sixth summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA) that opened in Astana.

As Putin stressed, "Unfortunately, Afghanistan remains one of the most acute security challenges for our region."

“This country, after more than 20 years of the military presence of the United States and NATO, the failure of their policies, turned out to be unable to independently solve the problems associated with terrorist threats, which is also confirmed by the ongoing series of bloody terrorist attacks, including the explosion near the Russian embassy in Kabul on September 5,” he said. head of state.

Putin noted that "in order to normalize the situation on the territory of Afghanistan, it is naturally necessary to jointly promote its economic recovery."

“But first of all, we urge to compensate for the damage caused to the Afghans during the years of occupation and unfreeze the illegally blocked Afghan funds,” he said.

According to him, "in the context of a settlement in Afghanistan, it would be useful to use the capabilities of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and its regional antiterrorist structure."

“We also invite all Asian countries to closer cooperation with the International Data Bank established at the initiative of Russia to counter terrorism,” the Russian leader added.

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