Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has said that due to the wars and conflicts in different parts of the world, global attention has moved away from Afghanistan.
Mirziyoyev stated this speaking at the informal summit of Organization of Turkic States (OTS) in Azerbaijan’s Shusha city.
“Unfortunately, due to the intensification of wars and conflicts in other regions of the world, the situation in neighboring Afghanistan, where millions of representatives of the Turkic peoples live, has gone out of the attention of the international community,” Mirziyoyev said.
He called for the release of Afghanistan’s assets which remain frozen since the takeover of the country by the Islamic Emirate.
“We are convinced that the return of Afghanistan’s frozen financial assets abroad will serve to alleviate the social situation in the country,” Mirziyoyev said.
In the new reality, the issues of developing common and unified approaches to Afghanistan by the organization’s member states should become the main agenda of the negotiations of our foreign ministers,” he added.
He suggested that developing common and unified approaches towards Afghanistan should be placed on the agenda of the foreign ministers of the Organization of Turkic States.
Mirziyoyev added that Uzbekistan will continue to provide the necessary assistance to the people of Afghanistan.
