Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov also expressed hope to have a face-to-face conversation with the prime minister of the CAR who is heading the republic’s delegation at the SPIEF
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National Security Advisor (NSA) Hamdullah Mohib said on Saturday that the Taiban’s supreme leader Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada has not been seen in the last year – which has again raised questions about whether he is dead or alive.
Mohib said in a press conference in Kabul Saturday that intelligence findings indicate that Taliban members have not had any contact with Akhundzada in the past 12 months.
He said: “The Taliban have had no contact with Mullah Hibatullah in the last 12 months. There is no information available whether he is alive or dead. No one has heard his voice and no one has met with him [in this time]. Intelligence information proves it.”
Said Tayeb Jawad pointed out that five months since Russian Special Presidential Envoy for Afghanistan Zamir Kabulov’s statement on a possible handover of a batch of Sputnik V vaccine to Afghanistan, there has been no progress
Russia welcomes US returning to two-state solution in Middle East, Foreign Ministry says
On May 17, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki stated that US President Joe Biden stands for the settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on the basis of coexistence of the two states
MOSCOW, May 24. /TASS/. Russia welcomes the fact that the new US administration has returned to the two-state solution in settling the Middle Eastern conflict, Russian Special Presidential Envoy for the Middle East and Africa, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov told TASS on Monday. We’ve always said that a political solution was needed, a stable, just, long-term [solution]. And it certainly should be based on an international legal foundation that exists - resolutions of the UN Security Council, of the UN General Assembly, the Arab Peace Initiative. All of this is well-known, he said. And of course, it is good that now the new administration has returned to the understanding that the principle