Russian, US and Chinese officials meet on Afghan situation will not lead to any solutions, India has to be included
While the third Meeting of Foreign Ministers of Afghanistan’s Neighboring Countries is scheduled in China’s Anhui Province on Wednesday and Thursday, China will also host a Troika Plus meeting there with Russia, the US and Pakistan over the Afghan situation.
The above is an absurd action being undertaken by China, USA and Russia. They have to understand that there can be no permanent solution to Afghanistan without India entering the Scene.
Also against the backdrop of the Ukraine crisis, the upcoming meetings on Afghanistan will not help the disparate parties to help Afghanistan despite because of their individual grudges, which has led to present regional instability in Europe and its capability to Spread internationally and destabilize World Peace.
Yue Xiaoyong, China’s special envoy for Afghan affairs, will host the Troika Plus meeting to be attended by representatives from the US, Russia and Pakistan. Imagine inviting the root cause of the problem itself that is the failed State of Pakistan, which did its best to destabilize Afghanistan to the hilt. Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will also be meeting with all the representatives.
“China, the US and Russia are countries that have important influence on Afghan issues. We hope this meeting will actively echo the third Meeting of Foreign Ministers of Afghanistan’s Neighboring Countries on further unifying consensus, promoting regional countries and the international community’s support to Afghanistan’s peaceful rebuilding and helping the country realize peace, stability and development,” Wang Wenbin said. Wang Sahib seems to have deliberately forgotten India, though in not very distant future, China will itself be begging India to do the needful for ensuring peace in Afghanistan.
There will also be a meeting between the neighboring countries and the Afghan Taliban government. Acting foreign minister of the Afghan interim government, Amir Khan Muttaqi, will attend the meeting.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will visit China on Thursday and lead a delegation to attend the Meeting of Foreign Ministers of Afghanistan’s Neighboring Countries, Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry said.
Russia has always been an important party on Afghan issues and it shares a lot of common concerns with China.
It is not surprising to see Lavrov’s attendance in the meeting in China since Russia has increased its involvement through different mechanisms to finish terrorism in Afghanistan as it has begun affecting the security of Central Asia. Russia’s interests and stance on Afghanistan are consistent and have not changed with the Ukraine crisis.
Indian media outlets have also paid great attention to the upcoming meetings on Afghanistan in China, with many focused on the absence of India from these meetings. Though it is most likely that Afghan issues and the upcoming meetings may have been already discussed during Wang Yi’s visit to India.
India always has had a major strategic interests in Afghanistan on both political security and economy, and for the past 20 years, it has invested $3 billion in Afghanistan.
However, given India’s support to the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan and its hostile attitude toward the Afghan Taliban, India has refused to do any negotiation with the rouge Taliban. Though in spite of this India was the first country to dispatch food grains to the starving millions.
China has surely made great efforts to promote the upcoming meetings. Aside from Wang Yi’s visits to Afghanistan and relevant countries last week, with the purpose to make the communication mechanism more diversified and fairer, China also invited Indonesia and Qatar – two countries that had made important contributions in previous Afghan internal reconciliation – to join the upcoming meetings.
However There is unlikely to be much progress without involvement of India.
