KABUL (Pajhwok): Russian President Vladimir Putin has voiced strong aversion to a new civil strife in Afghanistan.
"It is in our interest to prevent a recurrence of civil war in Afghanistan," he said at the Russia-Central Asia summit.
A state-run Russian media outlet quoted him as telling the high-level meeting in Astana on Friday that his country maintained the necessary level of contacts with the Taliban administration.
At the same time, Putin lashed out at Western spy services for aiding Afghan groups averse to the Taliban. However, he did not name any intelligence agency.
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