Monday, December 26, 2016

Pakistan, China, Russia To Hold Talks On Afghanistan This Tuesday

Voice of America: China, Pakistan, Russia to Meet on Afghanistan, Angering Kabul Leaders

ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Top Foreign Ministry officials from China, Pakistan and Russia will meet in Moscow on Tuesday to review what they perceive as a "gradually growing" threat to their frontiers posed by Islamic State extremists in Afghanistan.

"This is an existing forum for undertaking informal discussions on issues of regional peace and stability, including the situation in Afghanistan," Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Nafees Zakaria told VOA.

Pakistan's foreign secretary, Aizaz Chaudhry, will lead Islamabad's delegation, he added. Officials say future meetings could include Iran.

Chinese, Pakistani and Russian officials say they were driven to joint action by the efforts of IS affiliates to establish a foothold in Afghanistan.

Read more ....

Update #1: Pakistan, China, Russia to hold crucial talks on regional issue on Tuesday -- Pakistan Today
Update #2: Afghanistan voices displeasure over being ignored in upcoming trilateral meeting -- DAWN

WNU Editor: Iran will bve invited next. India and Afghanistan should (also) have been invited .... but their strained relations with Pakistan is what probably scuttled their participation.

6 comments:

Unknown said...

Kerry was not invited.

I guess horse face will just have to get use to it.

Jay Farquharson said...

Tillerson wasn't invited either.

Anonymous said...

"Tillerson wasn't invited either."

Of course not...he hasn't been confirmed yet...

Jay Farquharson said...

The US should get used to not being invited.

Unknown said...

"Tillerson wasn't invited either. "

As someone pointed out, he was not confirmed yet.


If It was post Jan 20th and Congress had not confirmed Tillerson yet, because they were in recess maybe you comment would have some validity.

Jay, you were right. It was the best election evuh. Your gal Hillary was defeated.

Unknown said...

China has already held more than a few conferences where the U.S. was not invited.

This was under the Great Redeemer, The One, Obozo.

This is nothing new.