Prime Minister Mario Draghi had a telephone conversation with the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin this morning.
Palazzo Chigi makes it known.
At the center of the talks were the latest developments in the Afghan crisis, the preparatory work for the upcoming G20 Summit and bilateral relations.
The Taliban government is optimistic about establishing a dialogue to improve relations with the new US envoy for Afghanistan, Tom West. The spokesman for the Foreign Ministry of the Islamic Emirate said this, stating that "good progress had already been made in negotiations with the two administrations of the United States led by Zalmay Khalilzad", the Washington envoy who resigned in the past few hours. .
Special envoys from Russia, China and Pakistan expressed support for urgent humanitarian and economic assistance to Afghanistan
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This was stated by the Russian Foreign Ministry quoted by Interfax.
"Participants exchanged views on security threats and expressed a common interest in providing urgent humanitarian and economic assistance to Afghanistan," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement posted on its website after the meeting in Moscow, held. in the format of the 'enlarged troika' on Afghanistan (which includes the United States - absent - as well as Russia, China and Pakistan).
