{"id":1552,"date":"2021-10-12T15:12:55","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T15:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2021-10-12T15:12:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T15:12:57","slug":"russia-blames-us-and-nato-deliberately-trying-to-heat-crisis-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/world\/russia-blames-us-and-nato-deliberately-trying-to-heat-crisis-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia blames US and NATO deliberately trying to \u2018heat\u2019 crisis in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p><strong>The chaotic exit of US collation troops sparked a sharp rise in refugees: Russian Foreign Minister<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MOSCOW, Oct 12 (Asia Free Press): After been beaten in two decades of military operations in Afghanistan, Western nations have handed over their weapons to the Taliban and are now deliberately trying to escalate tensions in the war-torn country, Russia\u2019s Foreign Minister said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Speaking on Tuesday at a meeting of foreign ministers, including representatives from Iran, Iraq and China, said severe challenges to keeping peace in Central Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUnfortunately, the geopolitical orientation of the region isn\u2019t getting any easier,\u201d Russian Television quoted Lavrov as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe are seeing deliberate attempts to heat the situation and undermine existing multilateral co-operation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He mentioned that the US-led NATO bloc has refused to take ownership of its failures in the region and is now set to worsen the refugee crisis by redeploying its troops across Asia. \u201cThe international community, especially Afghanistan\u2019s neighbours, need to step up and deal with the problem,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same, Lavrov went on, \u201cthe hasty withdrawal of NATO members has further entangled the knot of contradictions in Afghanistan. There are many weapons and large quantities of military equipment left in the country. must not put these to use to create destruction.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia is set to host a meeting with representatives of the Taliban and has also invited diplomats from Beijing next week. While the Islamist militant group is listed as a terrorist organization in Russia and banned, its political envoys have been given dispensation to fly in for talks to calm the troubled region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has previously warned that the withdrawal of US-led forces and the collapse of the American-backed government earlier this year risks creating a refugee crisis that will spill over into nearby nations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWho are these refugees? How can we tell? There may be thousands or even millions,\u201d Putin said. \u201cThe border is a thousand kilometers \u2013 they will get on everything, a car, even a donkey, and flee across the steppe.\u201d He added that \u201cwe do not want fighters disguised as refugees to turn up in our country.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chaotic exit of US collation troops sparked a sharp rise in refugees: Russian Foreign Minister MOSCOW, Oct 12 (Asia Free Press): After been beaten in two decades of military operations in Afghanistan, Western nations have handed over their weapons to the Taliban and are now deliberately trying to escalate tensions in the war-torn country, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,396,6],"tags":[58,741,743,742,77,199,74],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-latest","category-world","tag-afghanistan","tag-blames","tag-crisis","tag-heat","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}