The Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani has left the country for Russia to attend a summit that will focus on the political, economic and security situation in Afghanistan.
Shamkhani will join top security officials from Central Asian countries, Pakistan, India and China for a meeting planned for Wednesday in the Russian capital Moscow as part of the fifth round of the multilateral talks on Afghanistan.
The previous edition of the conference had been held in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe in May 2022.
Indian capital of New Delhi had hosted the third round of the initiative in 2021 two years after it was launched in Tehran.
Shamkhani is also scheduled to hold meetings with his counterparts from other countries, including Russia’s top security official.
