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On October 7, local time, the seventh meeting of the "Moscow Model" consultation on Afghanistan was held in Moscow.

Participating countries include China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Iran, etc. At the conference, the countries agreed that any country's deployment of military infrastructure in Afghanistan and its neighbors is "unacceptable".

Hong Kong¡¯s South China Morning Post that in recent years, U.S. President Trump suddenly stared at Afghanistan and pressured to regain control of the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, but this move achieved an unexpected achievement ¨C putting China, India and Pakistan on the same side, opposing the U.S. initiative.

According to the report, the participating countries said in the joint statement: "It is unacceptable for any country to try to deploy military infrastructure in Afghanistan and its neighboring countries, because it is not in the interests of regional peace and stability... All parties reiterated their support for Afghanistan to become an independent, peaceful, terrorism-and drug-free country, and expressed their willingness to assist Kabul in strengthening regional security."

The statement also mentioned in particular that those ¡°country that have the primary responsibility for the current difficult situation in Afghanistan¡± need to effectively fulfill their ¡°obligations for the economic recovery and future development of Afghanistan.¡±

Afghan Foreign Minister Mutaki attended the meeting, which was also the first time that the Afghan Taliban attended as a member.

Participants in the conference include China, Russia, India, Pakistan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The Belarusian delegation was also invited to attend the meeting as a guest.

The seventh meeting of the "Moscow Model" consultation on Afghanistan was held in Moscow.

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of the meeting, saying that Afghanistan's participation in the regional political process will benefit the activities of economic and multilateral organizations, and called on Western countries to shoulder the responsibility of Afghanistan's reconstruction and make up for the losses suffered by the Afghan economy.

"We reiterate that we will absolutely not accept the deployment of military infrastructure by third countries in Afghanistan and neighboring territories under any pretext," Lavrov stressed. "The forced existence of extraterritorial forces may lead to regional instability and new conflicts."

He once again strongly urged Western countries to correct their confrontation line, return the occupied Afghan national assets, shoulder the responsibility of Afghanistan's post-war reconstruction, and make up for the damage caused to Afghanistan's economy and infrastructure for decades.

According to Russia's Tass news agency, after the meeting, Lavrov and Mottaki held a meeting later on the 7th.

According to Zamir Kablov, adviser to the Russian Foreign Minister and special envoy to the President for Afghanistan, during the meeting, Lavrov told Mottaki that Russia "firmly opposes" the deployment of military bases in Afghanistan and its neighboring countries."Russia itself has no such plan or intention."

On the 7th, Lavrov met with Afghan Foreign Minister and Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow

According to reports, Bagram Air Force Base is located about 50 kilometers north of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan. It was once the largest military base of the United States in Afghanistan and the central hub of the 20-year war in Afghanistan led by the United States. Until August 2021, when U.S. and NATO troops withdrew from Afghanistan, the base was also abandoned. Currently, the base is controlled by the Afghan Taliban-led Defense Ministry.

But just four years after the U.S. withdrawal, last month, Trump suddenly said the U.S. sought to ¡°recall¡± the U.S. air base in Bagram, Afghanistan, which the U.S. forces had withdrawn in 2021, while hypeing that ¡°the base was close to China¡¯s nuclear weapons facilities.¡±

Trump also threatened that if the Taliban refused to agree,"something bad will happen."

On September 21, Qari Fasihuddin, Chief of Staff of the Afghan Armed Forces, replied: ¡°It is unthinkable and impossible to assign even one inch of territory to anyone.¡±

Later that day, Afghan Taliban chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid also dismissed Trump¡¯s remarks and urged the United States to take ¡°realistic and rational policies.¡±

According to Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun, on September 25, the informal meeting of the foreign ministers of China, Russia, Pakistan and Iran on Afghanistan was held during the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York. Yue Xiaoyong, Special Envoy for Afghanistan Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, attended the meeting on site.

The meeting issued the Joint Statement, emphasizing respect for the sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity of Afghanistan, and reaffirming its strong opposition to the re-establishment of military bases in Afghanistan and in the region by countries responsible for the current situation in Afghanistan.

The Observer Network.