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China held two multinational meetings in the ancient city of Tunxi to discuss the economic and humanitarian crisis faced by Afghanistan, because Beijing made diplomatic encouragement for the stability and development of the country under the Taliban.
Acting Afghan Afghan Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi attended a two-day meeting which will be attended by foreign ministers from close neighbors Afghan-Russia, Pakistan, Iran, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
Diplomats from Indonesia and Qatar will send their representatives as guest participants to regional meetings that will be held by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
Talks will “echo positive with the third meeting of Foreign Ministers from neighboring Afghan countries, to further strengthen the consensus of all parties … to help Afghanistan achieve peace, stability, and development on the initial date,” Wang Wenbin, Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesman said.
Separate meetings from “expanded Troika” will be held simultaneously among special envoys for Afghanistan from China, the United States and Russia, the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said.
China, the US, Russia and Pakistan are all countries with a significant influence on the Afghan issue,” Wang Foreign Ministry spokesman said about the Troika meeting at the Daily Briefing on Tuesday.
Tom West, a special US representative for Afghanistan, will attend a meeting called Troika who was extended, said a spokesman for the US State Department.
The meeting was held in Tunxi, an ancient city in Anhui Province, perhaps because of the relative ease of maintaining “bubbles” in the midst of the locking of the Coronavirus in big cities.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday arrived in Tunxi for talks with his Chinese colleagues but was not confirmed whether he would attend the Afghanistan meeting.
Lavrov mostly lived in Russia since the invasion of last month to Ukraine but traveled to Turkey on Tuesday for talks with his colleagues from Kyiv.
