Publish Date: 18 February 2024 - 20:44

Tehran, IRNA – Iran's special envoy to Afghanistan Hassan Kazemi-Qomi has stressed that Afghan security and a process which can ensure security, stability and welfare for the Afghan people is a common issue for regional countries.

Writing on his personal account on X on Sunday, the Iranian envoy said he and his counterparts from China, Pakistan and Russia had met in Doha, Qatar earlier in the day.

He noted that the regional contact committee is a very important and influential process, also underlining that the Afghan security and a process which can ensure security, stability and welfare for the Afghan people is a shared issue for these countries.

In an earlier meeting with Suhail Shaheen, the head of Taliban’s Political Office in Qatar, Qomi stressed that defending the interests of the Afghan people, regardless of the politics, is the foundation of Tehran’s diplomacy.  

A two-day meeting on Afghanistan’s situation hosted by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres opened in Doha on Sunday. Special envoys to Afghanistan were present at the meeting, but no Taliban representative was in attendance.

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