Lavrov: The main task for us is the stability of the Central Asian countries

MOSCOW, Nov. 01 (YPA) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Russia’s main task is to prevent destabilization of Central Asian allies after the Taliban (outlawed in Russia) seized power in Afghanistan.

“The main thing for us is their stability, since we do not have borders with our Central Asian allies, [there is] visa-free regime with almost everyone,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview on the Rossiya-24 television channel.

He added, “first and foremost, this is the necessity to prevent destabilization of neighboring countries and the influx of terrorist and drug threats from Afghanistan, the necessity to nip these threats in the bud inside Afghanistan.”

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