New Delhi is hosting bilateral meetings with her counterparts from Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan ahead of ‘Delhi Regional Security Dialogue on Afghanistan.
National Security Advisor Ajit Doval will hold meetings with his opposite numbers who landed in Delhi on Tuesday (November 9) to attend the first of its kind, regional dialogue on Afghanistan.
Doval will meet with the Russian counterpart Nikolai Patrushev, Secretary of Supreme National Security Council. From Iran, Rear Admiral Ali Shamkhani and Chairman of Kazakhstan’s National Security Committee, Karim Massimov on Wednesday, November 10.
He will also hold meetings with Nasrullo Rahmatjon Mahmudzoda, Secretary, Security Council of Tajikistan and Victor Makhmudov, Secretary, Security Council, Uzbekistan, today evening, ahead of ‘Delhi Regional Security Dialogue on Afghanistan’.
During the dialogue, India will discuss in detail terror threats emanating from within Afghanistan and around it, extremism and radicalisation is also key concern among many participants.
Pakistan refused to participate in this conclave even though it calls itself the most important stakeholder in Afghanistan.
Countries from Central Asia have come to attend this meeting because they fear that the instability in Afghanistan after the Taliban took over could easily spread to their countries as they share borders. For Russia, it is important to maintain hegemony over the former Soviet Union states as China is making inroads.
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