The Kremlin’s press service announced the meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin with the leader of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirzieev on November 19 in Moscow, transfers Interfax.
Putin and Mirzieev plan to discuss key issues of the further development of Russian-Uzbek relations of strategic partnership and alliance and the situation in Afghanistan, also to sign a significant package of bilateral documents.
In mid-August, power in Afghanistan captured the terrorist movement “Taliban” (prohibited in Russia), which a few months before that began a successful offensive against the background of the withdrawal of American troops from the country.
Uzbekistan’s authorities from the very beginning called the internal affair in Afghanistan. Falling across the border of the Afghan military expelled back.
Mirzieev stated that Tashkent had previously joined the negotiations with the Taliban “for the calm of the people.” “Then no one state did this, but I gave the instructions to negotiate with them. Their leader in Doha Baradar promised that no bullet would be put in the direction of Uzbekistan,” he explained.