Vladimir Putin: CSTO and SCO are interested in peace and stability in Afghanistan

A joint meeting of the heads of member states of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and the Collective Security Treaty Organization has been held in Dushanbe.
The meeting was attended by Nikol Pashinyan, Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia; Aleksandr Lukashenko, President of the Republic of Belarus; Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India; Seyed Ebrahim Raisi, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran; Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan; Xi Jinping, President of PRC; Sadyr Zhaparov, President of the Kyrgyz Republic; Uhnagin Khurlsukh, President of Mongolia; Imran Khan, Prime Minister of Pakistan; Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation (remotely); Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, President of Turkmenistan; Shavkat Mirziyoyev, President of Uzbekistan; as well as Stanislav Zas, Secretary General of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and Vladimir Norov, Secretary General of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
The meeting was chaired by Emomali Rahmon, President of the Republic of Tajikistan, as the head of state chairing the SCO and CSTO this year.
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan, speaking at the meeting of the SCO and CSTO heads of state, said the organizations need to coordinate their actions with regard to the situation in Afghanistan.
“Recent months have seen an accelerated transformation of the military and political situation in Afghanistan. A threat of its destabilization has emerged.
The CSTO and SCO have a mandate to prevent and respond to such threats. This underscores the importance of coordination between our two authoritative regional bodies,” Mr Tokayev said.
The interim government in Afghanistan created by the Taliban (banned in Russia) is facing a set of extremely challenging tasks, he said. “Besides the strategic goals of building a new state structure and achieving pan-national unity, they have to address immediate issues of survival. The reality is that solving the problems of economic collapse will ultimately predetermine the viability of Afghan statehood,” said the Kazakh President.
Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, said in his remarks at the meeting that all member nations of the SCO and CSTO share a common approach to responding to the situation in Afghanistan.
“The speeches of our colleagues show that all our states share similar approaches to responding to the threats emanating from the territory of Afghanistan,” he pointed out.