On the eve of the Doha 3 meeting on Afghanistan and the pressure of the United Nations and the European Union on the Islamic Emirate to participate in this meeting, the special representative of Russia for Afghanistan has said that the meeting of the regional contact group on Afghanistan on Saturday next week, 19 Gemini with the presence of representatives Especially Russia, Iran, China and Pakistan will be held in Tehran to discuss the Doha 3rd meeting.

Afghan Voice Agency (AVA) - International Service: Zamir Kabulov told the Russian TASS news agency about this: "We talked with the representatives of the Afghan leadership about the preparation for the next and third meeting of the special representatives for Afghanistan, and the Secretary General of the United Nations in Doha. we have done This meeting will be held in Doha on June 30 to July 1, but before that, we will meet in Tehran this Saturday.
He added that this meeting is the so-called "Moscow Format Contact Group" and includes Iran, China and Pakistan in addition to Russia.
Kabulov noted that the discussions at the Tehran meeting will be focused on preparations for the Doha meeting.
But he did not say whether the Islamic Emirate was invited to the meeting in Tehran.
The regional contact group is a group that was formed with the presence of special representatives of Iran, Russia, China and Pakistan and at the suggestion of Iran in the previous year's meeting of the Moscow format in the city of Kazan, Russia. Previously, the first meeting of this contact group was hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate in Kabul.
On the other hand, Russia's special representative for Afghanistan said in a press conference that Moscow supports Afghanistan's candidacy to become a member of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization conditionally.
Zamir Kabulov has added that Afghanistan's potential membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is not only related to the recognition of the Islamic Emirate by Russia, but also to the Afghan economy due to the "economic nature" of this organization.
He said: "Afghanistan should bring its economy to relative order so that the rest of the members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization consider it expedient to enter."
According to him, Russia is interested in expanding cooperation with Afghanistan in the fight against international terrorism and drug crimes.
But on the other hand, Kabulov said that Russia has not discussed the issue of removing the Islamic Emirate from the list of terrorist organizations with Central Asian countries.
Kabulov added: "We hope that the business of Russia and Afghanistan will find common areas of application, which will lead to further growth of the volume of trade between the two countries."