The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharov said that the reaction of Western countries on a humanitarian catastrophe in Afghanistan turns it into shock. In this opinion, the diplomat shared on the Youtube channel “Soloviev Live”.
The representative of the foreign policy criticized the words of the European authorities regarding the situation in the Islamic Republic. Zakharov recalled that the Prime Minister of Estonia Kaya Callas promised to contribute to the resolution of the crisis and take 10 refugees from Afghanistan. However, according to the diplomat, the countries of the West do not really make anything to help refugees.
“I am horrified by the same statements that are now distributed about this. (…) Shocks not only the humanitarian crisis, which unfolds in Afghanistan, shocks the response of the democratic world to this crisis,” she stressed.
On August 17, the Supreme Representative of the European Union on Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrel announced that the EU recognizes the victory of Taliban (a terrorist organization, prohibited in the Russian Federation) in Afghanistan and plans to begin a dialogue with a new government to prevent humanitarian and migration crises. Borrel stressed that the priority task of the European Union in Afghanistan is the evacuation of personnel and citizens of the republic who worked with EU countries.