Moscow. November 21. INTERFAX - The situation in Afghanistan gives no reason for optimism, generates new large-scale threats in the field of drug trafficking, arms smuggling and uncontrolled migration, said Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Alexander Grebenkin.
"The further degradation of the socio-political situation in this country against the background of impoverishment of the population and extrajudicial killings of its own citizens creates a real threat of a significant increase in the scale of drug trafficking, arms smuggling and uncontrolled migration. This also applies to people who are committed to radical ideology and have experience in combat operations," Grebenkin said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
At the same time, he noted that "militants and terrorists from Afghanistan can penetrate into the states of the Central Asian region, and from there to Russia through the Russian-Kazakh section of the state border."
This issue, according to him, "was one of the key issues at the recent annual meeting of the secretaries of the Security Councils of the CIS member states, during which the need to implement consistent measures for a phased settlement of the intra-Afghan crisis was noted."
